A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man. — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
The idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. — Horace Copy Share Image
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
“we shouldn’t surrender our real world perception to a false reality too much or we may suffer the inevitable consequences of deluded… — M.P. Neary Copy Share Image
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal,… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“Remove the exclamation point, replace it with an ellipsis; the real delusion is believing there is a beginning and an end, an… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
“ Webster's Third New International Dictionary defines delusion as "a false conception and persistent belief unconquerable by reason in something that has… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Any comfort you find in hating someone who speaks the truth is short-lived—and often replaced by regret.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end” — Peter M. Senge Copy Share Image
The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe. — Reb Anderson Copy Share Image
Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor. — Thinley Norbu Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. — Daniel S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
When you REALLY love someone you don't want to believe that they DON'T love you. So, you look for signs and convince… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Holy Shit, for some reason people have this absolutely insane delusion that I give a rats ass about what they think of… — Arjun Loveable Copy Share Image
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“If there is something here that is not in the Vedas, that is your delusion. It does not exist.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
