Lancaster Adams

your brain cannot distinguish between what is real or illusory, and it is always an illusion anyway.

Reality is just an illusion, although a very persistent one.

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck”
—The Dalai Lama

“The last thing in nature that man will understand is the performance of his brain.”
—John C. Eccles, 1977, scientist

“No pleasure is comparable to the study upon the vantage ground of truth.”
—Francis Bacon

you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes”
—Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist