The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
—Sigmund Freud
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
—Sigmund Freud
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
—Mark Twain
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
—Albert Einstein
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
—Voltaire