I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

Bob Dylan

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They [humans] are deeply immersed in illusions and in dream images; their eyes merely glide over the surface of things and see "forms."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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What, then, is truth? Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Karl Marx

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It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

Winston Churchill

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