Quotes About Illusion

The science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke gave us the law 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

We mistake the horizon we see for the parameters of the world.

Performing the magic, for me, is not about convincing anyone I have amazing abilities. Its about providing a journey which comes to a place where the brain starts spinning. And of course, the best brains spin the most.

Jean-Eugne Robert-Houdin, the extraordinary father of modern conjuring, made the salient point that a magician is an actor playing the part of a magician. This is a very good description. However, an actor takes for granted how to create drama in every word, movement and look. The average magician is barely aware of its existence.

Some people might think I could play Russian Roulette safely with a blank bullet. Our armourer took us outside to demonstrate the damage a blank causes at close range.

Its Derren Brown, its Derren Brown, its Derren Brown, its Derren Brown. Hes very kind, hell read your mind, even if youre blind, your thoughts hell find,

Derren Victor Brown

People are always saying, Can you use your skills to get extraordinarily beautiful women into bed? Well... yes, yes I can.

In magic, anyone with a shop-bought trick deck is a magician, and if people arent fooled they usually pretend to be, and they are understandably likely to mistake being fooled as a sign of being in the presence of an excellent magician.

It's never possible to know for certain the "true" source of any given interpretation, the dividing line between our association (i.e., projection) and reality. The question quickly becomes, What is real? It is always possible to consciously or unconsciously "see" almost anything we want. I can look at the ceiling and see an image of the Virgin Mary, or I can look at the ceiling and see that the spackler did a damn good job.

Green cars could be made of pure refined nonsense and fueled by bright green hot air combined with the broken and destroyed dreams of every nonhuman on earth, and they'd still be destructive.

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

The world that is perceived through any measuring scale is called maya.

The notion of the measuring scale is critical in Hindu thought. The value of an object depends on the scale being followed. And since all scales are man-made, all values are artificial. Thus all opinions ultimately are delusions, based on man-made measuring scales.

Only the truly enlightened know the world as it truly is; the rest construct a reality that comforts the ego.

there is a reality greater than what you perceive.

now I know the power of maya: that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness. Oh

He who controls the senses but has a mind full of cravings is a pretender who fools himself.

Only the truly enlightened know the world as it truly is; the rest construct a reality that comforts the ego. The

The gap between 'what is mine' and 'what is not mine' is an artificial construct, not a natural phenomenon that is created and can be destroyed by the human mind. The

When the reference point is aham, not atma, when the world is only Brahmanda not Prakriti, one is as deluded as one who is intoxicated.

knowledge of the world is imperfect based on perceptions and false information.

The world that you perceive is actually a delusion (maya) based on your chosen measuring scale.