I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked,… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Too often we post mile markers to convince ourselves of a road that doesn’t exist and a journey that we’re not on.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“That's the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores--when… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At… — Confucius 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
“Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would… — Jon Kabat-Zinn 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
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
