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.

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The...

Samantha reminds me of the difference between what is illusion and what is real. I am reminded whenever I forget that we choose our truth and whether to embrace it or not.

ça ressemble au bonheur, on dirait du bonheur, mais ce n’est pas du bonheur. On devrait être heureux, on ne l’est pas; alors on fait semblant.

If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it’s real?

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.

The illusion is the universe is only physical.

…I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion – can you understand that?…

The only thing that keeps us from a place of joy is an illusion, the illusion of fear.

You are dealing with national security. Anything labeled a national security issie is taken out from the system. There is no due process, no lawyers. They may do with us what they wish. Fear is...

Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn’t go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as...

It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.

Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) — he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are...

The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you’d have quit this Game before you played it.

We live in an illusion of safety while we hide in caves made ​​of glass looking for trees of concrete. Even our music resounds with the drums of the past.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

My Eyes Are Open But I’m Hardly Looking In The Front…. Everything’s Passing Me, Some Are Staring But My Eyes Are Blank, I’m Seeing But Not Seeing As My Mind Is Not Sending The Message...

How strange when an illusion dies. It’s as though you’ve lost a child.

Things aren’t like this,” he kept repeating. “It shouldn’t be this way.” As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, “right” universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow...

It’s always hard to remember love – years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending...

What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion.

I don’t mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are...

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

Magic is logic.

Mind is absolutely competent to harvest anything, it is up to us what we wish to produce!! Illusion, Ignorance or Awareness.

It’s no secret that we all live within a damning illusion called denial. We are doomed by our own far-reaching imaginations and beliefs that extend into a glorified version of eternity. How are we to...

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are made. When you’re staying at the Plaza with your beautiful wife, doesn’t it make sense to order the best...

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.

Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism.

You are not who you think.You’re not even the thinker.You are the one conscious of the thought.

Refutation of the Assertion That the (Phenomenal) Appearances Are MindAlthough forms appear to the mind, the (objective) appearances are not mind…. When the reflection of your face appears in a mirror, it appears as the...

Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds.

In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing...

Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.