Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
“As long as people want the Mormon Church to be true, more than they are willing to face the possibility that it… — Jim Whitefield Copy Share Image
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Every time I think I’m getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is never a moment where I find Trump persuasive. When I look at him I see a man without any inner… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defines delusion as “a false conception and persistent belief unconquerable by reason in something that has no… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“The single most important thing [you can do] is to shift [your] internal stance from "I understand" to "Help me understand." Everything… — Douglas Stone Copy Share Image
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Forms of energy from nature gave my father trouble. He refused to believe he was going to die. He had these weird… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“if you live in a culture that to a large extent equates self-worth with how much and what you have, if you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have… — Michael Mewshaw Copy Share Image
“When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“As you grow up, and you’ll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer… — Benjamin Kunkel Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for… — William Borah Copy Share Image
I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate… — Anohni Copy Share Image
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Perhaps one day we will do “everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.”… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective'… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
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