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• Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and the public sees us. The theatrical illusion is shattered if we ask what goes on behind the scenes. In real life discovery and justification are almost always different processes.

  Peter Medawar

  Real, Science, Discovery

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• Death is the greatest illusion of all.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Life After Death, After Death

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• Tears and fears and feeling proud
  To say I love you, right out loud
  Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
  I've looked at life that way.
  But now old friends are acting strange
  They shake their heads, they say I've changed
  Something's lost, but something's gained
  In living every day
  I've looked at life from both sides now
  From win and lose, and still somehow
  It's life's illusions I recall
  I really don't know life at all

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, Song, Love You

  "Both Sides Now" (song) (1967)

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• There is no illusion great than fear.

  Laozi

  Fear

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Truth, Real, Youth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1614, eBookIt.com

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• Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Confidence, Born

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• It is difficult not to believe that the next year will be better than the old one! And this illusion is not wrong. Future is always good, no matter what happens. It will always give us what we need and what we want in secret. It will always bless us with right gifts. Thus in a deeper sense our belief in the New Year cannot deceive us.

  Kersti Bergroth

  New Year, Believe, Years

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• We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hard Work, Men, Creating

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively?

  Kenny Smith

  Fitness, Truth, Practice

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• The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion

  Rene Guenon

  Inspirational, World, Ends

  René Guénon (2001). “The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times”, p.279, Sophia Perennis

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• Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Men, Faithful

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• Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

  Philip Guston

  Memories, Artist, Magic

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.278, Univ of California Press

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• The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Gratitude, Strong, Grateful

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• If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

  Jean Hugard

  Magic, Action, Used

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• Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

  Jean Hugard

  Magic, Movement, Causes

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• The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

  Paul LePaul

  Imagination, Magic, Fantasy

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• Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.

  David Devant

  Magic, Care, Chance

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• It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Ignorance, Growing, Photographer

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• In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Reality, Men, Deceit

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• I don’t want to hang on and Cry over something so little, Like a springtime illusion that’ll disappear after I wake up

  Lee Hyori

  Wake Up, Want, Littles

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• Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

  Elif Safak

  Needs, Matter, Moments

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• Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

  Peter Akinola

  Broken, Break, Communion

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• The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

  Laura Anne Gilman

  Might, Painful, Truth Is

  "Flesh and Fire". Book by Laura Anne Gilman, 2009.

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• Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. We’d rather text than talk.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Technology, Seductive

  Sherry Turkle (2017). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

  Sherry Turkle

  Friendship, Technology, Creating

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