“Actually, even in the stage of delusion (absence of self realization), one should protect the weak and fight a powerful one. But… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Americans live under the delusion that enterprise here is both private and free. It may be nominally private, but it's anything but… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
“Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: ‘When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Confusion is like a delusion, it's like dust covering the mirror of your real potentials and identity followed by your true belief… — Mohsin Ali Shaukat Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
“If you are proven to be right a hundred times in a row, no amount of evidence will convince you that you… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Consider that the Holy Spirit lives in the spiritual father, and He will tell you what to do. But if you think… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The hairline difference between imagination and hallucination is that imagination finds always limitless reality, whereas hallucination binds itself within the limits of… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Someone who has the delusion Glass, is made of, does not literally believe herself to be made of glass but rather feels… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is… — Asaram Copy Share Image
“So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and… — Tiffany Baker Copy Share Image
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“(...) there was actually nothing, and /you/ were nothing, and it was all a delusion. And that you were better than everyone… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve the problem… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image