Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.
Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.