It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

You went from my life right into my dreams,i can hardly tell,If i’m cursed or blessed ;I am sure things aren’t always as they seem,but i drift away,mesmerized, possessed.Memories i have uncertain and fragile,Is what...

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; nor ever stopped to think that the lore and those...

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely...

Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can’t do.

Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those’re both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that’s completely real is this...

Time is not an illusion. It’s tricky and elusive.

Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.

Life isn’t all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of one or the other that either a bright outlook or dim expectations becomes...

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?

There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

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.

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...