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Last updated on December 13, 2024.
My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.
Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!
Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.
Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.
You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination
There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.
Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.
You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.
Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.
They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will mirror their illusions.
The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.
Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid.
Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.
Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.
Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.
It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
As an actor, you know every job you have is going to end someday. That's not so much different than the rest of the world; we just don't have illusions about it.
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.
One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create.
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.
We are no longer anchored here through the illusions. The Earth itself is transforming to allow us to be unearthed and to make our way differently within the universal community.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.
A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.
We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.
