When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
We are deceived by the appearance of right.
Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.
Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.
God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.
