Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
“Knowledge (gnan) is that which tells you ‘it is’ to ‘that what it is’ and ‘it is not’ to ‘that what is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of… — Ruth Tessler Goldstein Copy Share Image
People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“Our lives are more like a canvas on which we paint, than a script we need to learn – though the illusion… — Fiona Givens Copy Share Image
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's… — Mae West Copy Share Image
Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ...… — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“I REALIZED THAT I DIDN’T HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING, I ONLY HAD TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO WHAT WAS MOST IMPORTANT,… — Dana Malstaff Copy Share Image
