The whole idea of civilization as an understandable…

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

— Mark Twain

Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to…

— Anonymous

Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a…

— Octavia E. Butler

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions…

— Charles Kuralt

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

— Stephen King

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

— John Calvin

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed…

— Andrew Solomon

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

— Tony Kushner

“In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison.”

— Steve Maraboli

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

— Victor LaValle

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

— B. Alan Wallace

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

— Gautama Buddha

Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

— Claude Steiner

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes…

— Sigmund Freud