“Sometimes we see a cloud that’s dragonish; A vapor sometime like a bear or lion, A tower’d citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon ’t. William Shakespeare
“The only freedom the gods grant us Is this: to submit Of our own free will to their sovereignty. We should do just that, Since only in the illusion of freedom Does freedom exist. Fernando Pessoa
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.Sigmund Freud
“Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.Sigmund Freud