I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored. — El-P Copy Share Image
Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately as a classic paranoid delusion. But in… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic view and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.” — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that Im somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most people grow out of this infantile delusion. Monotheists hold on to it till the day they die.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support. — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Is this the life you really want, constant delusion. Your time with me was very fun, there's no illusion. — Serani Copy Share Image
“You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion. — Ruth Marcus Copy Share Image
