“When we are lost in delusion, it's hard to see even the most obvious truths.” — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“delusion, and it won’t be long before you discover that you, too, “see” God in everything: that He is your only treasure,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur -… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“The hell with this aching, suffering, callow, half-assed delusion that he was in "love" with her. The hell with "love" anyway, and… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the… — David Ulevitch Copy Share Image
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,'… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“A man who has suffered some humiliation invents a theory that he is King of England, and develops all kinds of ingenious… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mass delusion is the result of the effort. Propaganda is one of the techniques. But it mentioned things like you create a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image