There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
“Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity. But when the mirror smashes… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“Pain's a delusion." Oh, is it?" said the Savage and, picking up a thick hzel switch, strode forward. The man from the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I… — J. C. Ryle 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
“[My] theory of risk is that it is better to take a substantial holding of what one believes in than scatter holdings… — Allen C. Benello Copy Share Image
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“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
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
![“Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.” quote by Michael Ruse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1db/michael-ruse-35791_atheist_their-the-new-atheists-treatment-of-the_1955646.jpg)
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