Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief. — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the sea of delusion.” — Línjì Yìxuán Copy Share Image
“Too often we post mile markers to convince ourselves of a road that doesn’t exist and a journey that we’re not on.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Past, present, future: a collusion to perpetuate a delusion for the sake of an illusion. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance). — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any… — Bebe Neuwirth 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
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into… — Noam Chomsky 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
“In the illusion of delusion, between madness and lawlessness I exist. I dream about dreams, about illusions and disillusions and cold and… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do… — Ryohgo Narita Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
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