“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 fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)” — Yasutani Roshi 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
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“Some do indeed demonstrate a remarkable resilience to facts, but like putty to a delusion.” — Saif Rahman Copy Share Image
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. — Marco Rubio 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
The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another,… — Antoinette Bosco 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
Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the… — Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Even now I cannot believe that I am still alive and writing this account of the emperor's death. I put my hands… — Anna Comnena 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
“Its amazing the delusion of being watched and expressing its exquisite beauty both illusions lies in the same jar.” — None Copy Share Image
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
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
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
