The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd thought of myself as an essentially good person, but all I'd been was comfortable.” — Molly Brown 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
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are… — Rob Long 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
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting… — Roland Barthes 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
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad… — Bo Lozoff 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
