“If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“But to try to achieve something massively significant in a field where you’re by and large useless after your fortieth birthday—and my… — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
I suppose I've become less judgmental about individuals leading lives according to false ideas and false consciousness, because sometimes entire societies are… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
“Errors were doubtless committed on all sides, delusions set on foot which there was not time to dissipate and means, designed for… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Each time we make this shift and choose happiness, we experience a miracle. Our mind shifts from fearful delusions and reconnects to… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Confusion is like a delusion, it's like dust covering the mirror of your real potentials and identity followed by your true belief… — Mohsin Ali Shaukat Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If you are proven to be right a hundred times in a row, no amount of evidence will convince you that you… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another,… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“You can keep your passive hope and blind faith, and I’ll take the despair. Because at least the despair is real. I’d… — Evan Grinde Copy Share Image
You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rock stardom is hard work and it takes a team to make it happen. Also, communication is important because too often inexperienced… — David Ellefson Copy Share Image
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Actually, even in the stage of delusion (absence of self realization), one should protect the weak and fight a powerful one. But… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“[My] theory of risk is that it is better to take a substantial holding of what one believes in than scatter holdings… — Allen C. Benello Copy Share Image
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Americans live under the delusion that enterprise here is both private and free. It may be nominally private, but it's anything but… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
“Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: ‘When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it'… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
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