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

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

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

A bad magician never gets the good props.

Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in...

Truth starts with a sense.

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.

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was – a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces – and he needed days of repose to see...

Myth, mist, and mystery all add to the illusion of love. If you need me I’ll be by the fog machine wearing a tunic and writing an epic poem in Greek.

You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence

Crime does not pay … if you get caught.

We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The whole thing’s illusion, [Jacob], and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s what people want from us. It’s what they expect.

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.

As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don’t perform.

What a nuisance is the friend who must have this and that, whose likes and hates are infinite, with bitter and loud voiced complaint about the whole of circumstance? How pleasant are the truly great...

In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they’re looking for numbness,...

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied–or, for that matter, awarded–because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends...

The seething rage that accompanies the truly despondent, effaces the delusional that mock from the safety of their shared illusion.

Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance.

Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.

Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I’m going to get better that day.

He who knows that this body is like froth, and has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow of illusion, and never see the king of death.

Blame is a Defense Against PowerlessnessBetrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD symptoms— hypervigilance, flashbacks and bewilderment—with broken trust, with the inability to cope with many...

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided...

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully.

At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion – or is it?

A man’s wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Nothing causes more people to deny God, misunderstand God, mistreat others, or abuse Nature more than the illusion of separateness. Nothing. No thing.

The world is real; philosophy is the illusion.

Reading Is Very Powerful…. It Gives You The Illusion To See The Past, Present, Future And Even Seeing The Invisible…. So READ….

Higgs particle is the illusion that gives all matter mass.

Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won’t miss the transformation, but if he doesn’t, you won’t be fooled by some wishful illusion in your head.

Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.

Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I’m the one that’s alive. You’re all dead.

…it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

In the dark, neglected gutter running the length of a nearby secluded side street lies a small, lifeless bird. This is the blackcap – the unaccustomed northern nightingale – a creature with a charcoal greyness...