“God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.”

“This is where the disillusioned gathered to look for new illusions”

“In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.”

“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned”

“Separation may just be an illusion. When we feel love in any form, it has the effect of beginning to shatter that illusion.”

“He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.”