Quotes About Illusion

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.

The kinna man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic.

Theatre,' Davy said. 'That's what houses are, you know. Just theatre. All buildings are. Charades of permanence. They're fantasies. Fictions we make about ourselves. Right?

This is where the disillusioned gathered to look for new illusions

If this is a dream the whole world is inside it.

might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Place the tip of a stick in a clear brook and you'll see it "bend" underwater because the speed of light is literally slower beneath the surface than it is in air.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

some might say: 'Fragmentation of cities, religions, political systems, conflict in the form of wars, general violence, fratricide, etc., are the reality. Wholeness is only an ideal, toward which we should perhaps strive.' But this is not what is being said here. Rather, what should be said is that wholeness is what is real, and that fragmentation is the response of this whole to man's action, guided by illusory perception, which is shaped by fragmentary thought.

In the long run it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.

The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.

Bowie drew our attention to the fact that a person could play the part of a rock star before actually becoming one.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.

Facts just twist the truth around.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do; They confuse fantasy with reality.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.