Quotes by Illusion Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery. Cynthia Ozick illusion wind memories Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to. Czeslaw Milosz clutch illusion men An illusion which is a real experience is worth having. D. H. Lawrence illusion experience real That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough. Dallas Willard illusion way ideas Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself. Dan Harmon illusion suffering stuff You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world. Dan Millman illusion about-yourself world There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion. Daniel Dennett illusion people way Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us. Daniel Dennett phenomenon illusion found The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin illusion progress ignorance Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion. Daniel J. Boorstin illusion character men The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. Daniel Kahneman illusion ability past After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time. Daniel Kahneman illusion facts world I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood. David Benatar illusion misunderstood matter I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it. David Blaine illusion magic pieces I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions. David Copperfield illusion method resources The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion. David Copperfield illusion plan-b keys If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered. David Eagleman illusion choices decision That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.) David Gilmour illusion waiting home I'm under no illusion that the future will be a neat and tidy or desirable world. We will gain a lot of things through necessity and a lot of them through all sorts of fragile dysfunction - not because they're bad ideas but because they will inevitably be adopted in a chaotic, reactive way. David Holmgren neat illusion world Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. David I. Rozenberg censorship illusion reality «1234567891011»