“We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. HENRI POINCARÉ (1854–1912)” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When a person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when a number of people suffer from a delusion it is… — Lekan Wahab Copy Share Image
Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.” — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
“In an instant he saw the delusion of his five hundred years. He was not looking into a box; he was looking… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
“Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't have clear contact with reality, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a bona fide delusion. He needs things… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“we shouldn’t surrender our real world perception to a false reality too much or we may suffer the inevitable consequences of deluded… — M.P. Neary Copy Share Image
Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
“A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal,… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“Remove the exclamation point, replace it with an ellipsis; the real delusion is believing there is a beginning and an end, an… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“If there is something here that is not in the Vedas, that is your delusion. It does not exist.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his… — Ellen Sturgis Hooper Copy Share Image
I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Holy Shit, for some reason people have this absolutely insane delusion that I give a rats ass about what they think of… — Arjun Loveable Copy Share Image
“A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“No one can make you feel anything you don’t want to feel,” my mother told me once, a complete delusion. He” — Cat Marnell Copy Share Image
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“True or False? The delusion that doing well in school will win me love has disfigured my life. Discuss in 5-7 pages.” — Terry Castle Copy Share Image
There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor,… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
