And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and… — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness. — or The Archictect from the Matrix reloaded movie Copy Share Image
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Most of our fears are much bigger in our minds than they are in reality. We'll see this for ourselves as soon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The reason so many people are unhappy is, for the most part, delusion. They believe the predominant myths that our culture propagates… — Woody Hochswender Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I get to wondering if I really can write or if I'm just being delusional...then I decide it doesn't matter because… — Bea Cannon Copy Share Image
I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored. — El-P Copy Share Image
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that… — Daniel O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
“But can thought wake you from the dream of existence? Not if it becomes a second realm of confusion, another more complicated… — Saul Bellow 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
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights . He will claim that the state is… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict,… — Theodor Adorno 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
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
“The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Being here with him is safety; it’s a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside. This is a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees. — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“O how we call each other names You call me schizophrenic I call you God But we do agree on one Deluded… — Sunil Vidyarthi Copy Share Image
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions. — Rudolf Wanderone Copy Share Image
“The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that Im somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
