It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery. — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
True bigotry is when you can't see the facts because your own beliefs are blocking the way. — Lawrence D Elliott Copy Share Image
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Each time we make this shift and choose happiness, we experience a miracle. Our mind shifts from fearful delusions and reconnects to… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I… — John Gower Copy Share Image
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools…And as for sustained yield, no such idea had… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood,… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
“We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Rock stardom is hard work and it takes a team to make it happen. Also, communication is important because too often inexperienced… — David Ellefson Copy Share Image
I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions… — John F. Kennedy 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
“Mortals live but their souls are little more than raw energy coursing through flesh. When they die that energy is broken down… — Plague Jack Copy Share Image
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“If I told you to wish for good health, you would think I'm ridiculous; but when I exchange the word "wish" for… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
I suppose I've become less judgmental about individuals leading lives according to false ideas and false consciousness, because sometimes entire societies are… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Errors were doubtless committed on all sides, delusions set on foot which there was not time to dissipate and means, designed for… — Martin Van Buren 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
“But to try to achieve something massively significant in a field where you’re by and large useless after your fortieth birthday—and my… — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it'… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
