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Letter "I" » illusory
«Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
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Joy
| Keywords:
genuine, illusory
«Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.»
«At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clothed, denseness, henceforth, hills, illusory, inhuman, outline, outlines, Outlining, Paradise Lost, remote, strangeness
«You may have a throne at the royal court, with beautiful decorations and soft carpets, all sorts of luscious fruits and beautiful gardens, the excitement of the chase and princely pleasures - but still, the mind is not made happy by such illusory diversions.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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carpets, decoration, decorations, diversions, gardens, illusory, luscious, princely, royal court
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