We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Benjamin Cardozo
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  1. But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. - Unknown

  2. There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. - T.S. Eliot

  3. Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen. - Edward Albee

  4. Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? - Virginia Woolf

  5. The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else -- or else we could not endure. - Ruth Tessler Goldstein

More Quotes By Benjamin Cardozo
  1. It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business of the judge begins

  2. We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

  3. Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

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