Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
“Its amazing the delusion of being watched and expressing its exquisite beauty both illusions lies in the same jar.” — None Copy Share Image
But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True bigotry is when you can't see the facts because your own beliefs are blocking the way. — Lawrence D Elliott Copy Share Image
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery. — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
“All she ever said to me about him was You can only love a person that much once in your life, and… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“It is no so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
“How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Believing without evidence is politely called religion, but more accurately called delusion.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.” — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd thought of myself as an essentially good person, but all I'd been was comfortable.” — Molly Brown Copy Share Image
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)” — Yasutani Roshi Copy Share Image
The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mortals live but their souls are little more than raw energy coursing through flesh. When they die that energy is broken down… — Plague Jack Copy Share Image
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
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