First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something. — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
“Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind’s delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“the idea that one is ever too busy to pray is delusion of the most dangerous variety.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
One of the stupidest mistake in life is thinking that the person who hurt you won't hurt you again. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor,… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The mind is just a delusion not a reality. If the materials are perception of our mind, then why we cannot turn… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Maybe the most dangerous thing about the “Illuminati” isn’t that such a master cabal has ever existed, but that some people believe… — Richard B. Spence Copy Share Image
“In an instant he saw the delusion of his five hundred years. He was not looking into a box; he was looking… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. — Walter Wager Copy Share Image
As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change. — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else. — Chuck Hillig Copy Share Image
Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions. — Claude Steiner Copy Share Image
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early. — Wayne Knight Copy Share Image
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