“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
“Most people grow out of this infantile delusion. Monotheists hold on to it till the day they die.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Is this the life you really want, constant delusion. Your time with me was very fun, there's no illusion. — Serani Copy Share Image
...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its… — Henri Matisse 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
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately as a classic paranoid delusion. But in… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to… — Kenny Smith 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
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I think the Bhagavad Gita is about both the forces of light and the forces of darkness that exist within our own… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support. — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion. — Ruth Marcus Copy Share Image
“You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“God, in the sense defined, is a delusion; and, as later chapters will show, a pernicious delusion.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and… — David Means Copy Share Image
“The long-deluded will at last see the truth, and thus their expressions will have seen a ghost.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots." - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium” — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
