People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.

How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of...

The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called “seeing”. Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Fog is more dangerous than dark, as it gives the illusion of seeing.

Somewhere, beyond blackness, some tyrant host swaps breathing for airlessness to test me. I had no concept of myself, no link to the things I knew. It is hard to explain the lack of anything...

Only a cynic can create horror–for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock...

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: ‘There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

A fly with an elephant on its back would give the illusion of a flying elephant, if that fly were powered by my love for you.

I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion.

I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander

Sanity is not about confrontation. It’s about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying “no” to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make...

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end – the love of...

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it...

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.

Like the very quantum particles we study, we must be comfortable allowing our view of the world to exist in superposition.

What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (…) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the...

You said you were a fairy princessYou said you were a shooting starYou said we’d go to Bora BoraNow look at where the fuck we are

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn’t seem real to me.- How does it seem?- It seems like an illusion that nobody notices.

That’s how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be...

Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.’ Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. ‘Bright songs and the magic of...

The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent one.

If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces –a movement towards...

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will die.But the fascinating thing is that the illusion of certainty is exactly the...

The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality. The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality. The third stage of ignorance is the rejection...

Science tells me time is an illusion.My heart tells me time must exist.My mind tells me I’ll never understand time.

All order, I’ve come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and...

Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, and from Egypt forward they’ve been...