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illusion

Generally, a delusion, deception, or false perception. Illusion is, like appearance, usually contrasted with reality. The concept is often used in the philosophy of perception and in epistemology. It is only by trusting some experiences that we can identify others as illusory, so the occurrence of illusions does not mean that everything is illusory.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
He exchanges new lamps for old, the spangles of illusion for the drabs of reality, and in the end cheats all who traffic with him.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
As its holiest, it once loved "Thou-shalt": now is it forced to find illusion and arbitrariness even in the holiest things, that it may capture freedom from its love: the lion is needed for this capture.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
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