We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.” — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and… — Octave Feuillet Copy Share Image
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I think the Bhagavad Gita is about both the forces of light and the forces of darkness that exist within our own… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking. — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free… — David Hume 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
Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the… — Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
