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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • thinking could ever reach reality, but must forever deal with illusions.
  • and freedom an illusion based on ignorance. Such was fundamentally the
  • illusions of the sense-world, then we can indeed act in freedom, out
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • will, or is freedom a mere illusion begotten of his inability to
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • I am under no illusion about these characteristics of my
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • of humanity, now as its most fatal illusion. Infinite subtlety
  • been recognized as an empty illusion by every philosophy
  • freedom is an illusion.
  • The Illusion of Freewill,
  • Die Illusion der Willensfreiheit, 1885, page 5.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • the agent in the conceptual process may be an illusion, but
  • fancies, mental pictures, concepts and ideas, all illusions and
  • me. Whether they be truth, or illusion, or dream, I know
  • illusion. In reality one is observing only the results of an
  • illusion arise that the observed thinking exists in its own
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • be only two sorts of men: victims of the illusion that their own dream
  • be called absolute illusionism,
  • illusionism who denies altogether the existence of an Ego-in-itself behind
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • galloping, I can produce the illusion of movement by rotating
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • then be nothing more than an illusion. For though I consider
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • alleged satisfaction turns out on closer inspection to be illusion.
  • It is illusion when we believe that in health, youth, freedom, sufficient
  • feelings attach themselves are revealed as illusions by the light of reason,
  • intelligence sees through the illusions.
  • this to himself, then he must regard as illusion what his ambition had
  • pictured as reality, and thus also the feelings attached to these illusions
  • pleasure as are produced by illusion must also be struck out of the balance
  • pleasures stripped of all illusion, and this is so small compared with the
  • accompany actual or supposed illusions would positively falsify the balance
  • illusion. The pleasant sensation he has had is not in the least diminished
  • whether they are based on illusions or not. Whoever ascribes a lesser value
  • for life to a pleasure which is based on an illusion than to one which can
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • all separate existence turns out to be mere illusion due to
  • intuitive thinking. Thinking destroys the illusion due to
  • illusion due to perceiving, has at all times been the goal of
  • illusion. But the second part of this book finds its natural
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • eliminated. The illusion that it is not so only comes about
  • not avoid absolute illusionism. For the world which confronts