Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
Mind is absolutely competent to harvest anything, it is up to us what we wish to produce!! Illusion, Ignorance or Awareness.
Stay faithful to consciousness, rest everything is illusion including your mind. Simply be aware without adulterations from intellegience.
For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.
Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.
Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
(W.D.) Howells asserted that the Americans' 'love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from no particular ancestry.' Their fiction, he added, often gathers in the gray 'twilight of the reason,' on 'the borderland between experience and ill...
…I’m afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important… it’s almost like people want to believe in some illusion that they’re robots and forget altogether that they’re real, living people… but eve...
Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.
Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.
...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.
What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.
You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway.
...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.
