Any Quote by Doug Henning

How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only…

— Andre Bazin

Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.

— Jamy Ian Swiss

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so…

— Lucretius

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

— Virginia Woolf

When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our belief of…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

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

— David Bohm

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

— Jean Baudrillard

Illusion is the mantle of the Real

— Frederick Franck

Illusion never changed into something real.

— Natalie Imbruglia

If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must…

— John Cudahy

“It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with”

— Bram Stoker

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

— Libba Bray