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.

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.

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.

te midden vankleurenverwrongen doch schijnbaarleeftijdloosbevind ik mijschouder aan schoudermet de tijdhaar schaterlachweerkaatst tegen de murenvan het eindelozeverstart de wijzersvoor een ogenblikongemerktverbleektwat eens waszo blijktkleurechtheideen illusie.

The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

I don’t want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed.

Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses.

Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of changing the world.

Death is merely an illusion of the departed… Just because you cannot physically see the idea of God, doesn’t mean that he or she isn’t there. Just because you cannot physically see someone that isn’t...

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.

Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This aspect...

Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.

The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else — or else we could...

There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

…but it was just her mind playing cruel tricks, and she tried to push away the irrational thought that Richard was still in there, waiting for someone to save his life.

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums,Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,We win some battles, then we lose some,Truth is no more than illusion at best.What has been said under veil of...

I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

Was it just fear? the voices wonder. We were fearful in the best of times; how could we cope with the worst? So we found the tallest walls and poured ourselves behind them. We kept...

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to...

Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth,Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds,Is the joy of reaching the stream.

Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.

The concept of Time is but the span of our memory.

We must not harbor the illusion of a killer application.

Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer’s financial aspirations, and, working-hours.

Your money myth affects your gain and luck.In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between...

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is a sweet dream. You understand why, of course. Why this peculiar...

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

For spiritual vision of our soul, we need to balance between quantitative illusions & qualitative reality of our life.

He’s got things to do, places to be, realities to believe in. He can feel the phone he’s been told to keep switched off in this communication-free zone vibrating in his pocket and he thanks...

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief...

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion,...

If we look upon the earth as a place where our ‘higher selves’ have come to learn, to experience, or even to be judged, then the splitting of realities that occurs with the many-worlds interpretation...

To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself...

One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was borne onward with the crowd past the great electric-lighted shops, a holy Indifference...

Tomorrow is like ‘there.’ Once you get ‘there,’ it is called ‘here.’ So, technically, life is a set of Todays.

Priceless is economic illusion.Costless is an economical trick.

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of...

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect.