A delusion is something that people believe in despite a…

... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to…

— Massimo Pigliucci

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an…

— Jimmy Carter

“Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people…

— Stefan Molyneux

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options…

— Christopher Lasch

I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the…

— Tina Modotti

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

— Nicholas Rescher

“Psychologists have finally proven that the entire justice system’s deep motives and its idea as a whole, which have existed for thousands of years,…

— Alexandar Tomov

No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people…

— Woody Allen

When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is…

— Peter Stone

“A lack of evidence for collective identity is not evidence for its absence, especially when we have no surviving Phoenician literature and relatively little…

— Josephine Quinn

“But even though nobody from the government ever says anything out loud about a lack of evidence being the real reason nobody from these…

— Matt Taibbi

But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for the proposition…

— Alvin Plantinga

Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form…

— Protagoras

“The writer C. S. Lewis once characterized this style of argument: “The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of…

— Naomi Oreskes

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the…

— Clifford D. Simak