TRUTHFUL ILLUSIONS &

ILLUSORY TRUTHS

ESSAYISTIC APHORISMS BY JOHN O’LOUGHLIN

(Taken from the texts Between Truth and Illusion and The Illusory Truth)

Copyright © 1977-2010 John O'Loughlin

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CONTENTS

1. The Interdependence of Opposites

2. The Conflict of Opposites

3. The Necessary Illusion

4. The Legitimacy of Stupidity

5. More Positive than Negative

6. Both Positive and Negative

7. Neither Angel nor Demon

8. No Good without Evil

9. Only Part Wise

10. Perfect or Imperfect

11. Perfect and Imperfect

12. A Necessary Doubt

13. No Sham Wisdom

14. Only Absurd Sometimes

15. Not Entirely Sane

16. Not Entirely Insane

17. No Happiness without Sadness

18. Nothing Superfluous

19. Between Day and Night

20. A Mistake in Plutarch

21. Wisdom and Folly

22. Truth and Illusion

23. Good and Evil

24. Happiness and Sadness

25. Profundity and Superficiality

26. Certainty and Doubt

27. Reasonableness and Unreasonableness

28. Cleverness and Stupidity

29. Success and Failure

30. Pleasure and Pain

31. Love and Hate

32. Virtue and Vice

33. Strength and Weakness

34. Interest and Disinterest

35. The Philosopher as Man, Not Machine

36. Two Types of Thinker

37. Thinking Should Be Difficult

38. A Justification of Boredom

39. Ultimate Justice

40. No Escaping Evil

41. The Way it has To Be

42. No Hope without Fear

43. Twenty Mistaken Ideas

44. Slightly Existential

45. Words as Our 'Reality'

46. Partly Our Creation

47. Truths but No Truth

48. Reality and Realities

49. Human Diversity

50. No Two Alike

51. Time Belongs to Man

52. Inevitably Unreasonable

53. Puppets of Life

54. The Negative Root

55. The Struggle for Happiness

56. Work and Play

57. No Freedom without Bondage

58. From Winter to Autumn

59. No 'Mother Nature'

60. Male and Female Pride

61. Against Folly

62. Suspended Judgement

63. Against Reincarnation

64. Superstition Universal

65. The End of the World

66. Art as Ideality

67. Great Art

68. No Health without Disease

69. Illness No Objection

70. The 'Plimsoll Line' of Sleep

71. A Wider View of Vice

72. Misused Concepts

73. Against Racial Inequality

74. The Transience of Death

75. Philosophy verses Insular Intolerance

76. Individual Wisdom

77. The Meaning and Purpose of Life

78. The Inferior Negative

79. Four Categories

80. Negatives Serve

81. Successful Failures

82. Positively Selfish

83. A Posthumous B.C.

84. Schismatic Christianity

85. Live Symbols

86. Interplanetary Equilibrium

87. Magnetic Reciprocities

88. Universe or Universes

89. Between Good and Evil