Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time… — Gail Caldwell 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
What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the… — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Copy Share Image
Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing -… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Daydream delusion, limousine eyelash Oh baby with your pretty face Drop a tear in my wineglass. Look at those big eyes See… — Before Sunrise Copy Share Image
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“I tend to interpret that whole 'everyone's wife is a Mossad agent' thing in a more sort of metaphorical way--that people you're… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
We live in a self-organizing and self-correcting universe. For every problem, there is a potentially miraculous solution. A closed heart deflects the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
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… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.” — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic view and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens. — Russ Potts Copy Share Image
