I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“If men had not this delusion as to the ultra-importance of their own particular employments, I suppose that they would sit down… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be… — Mooji Copy Share Image
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist.… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a current mythology in our culture that anytime we meet someone and have that "enchanted evening" experience, that experience of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I have generally been denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious I am no Christian , except… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I still partially suffer from the delusion that if you explain things logically and systematically, most people will abandon their emotional prejudices… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire… — Chris Diamantopoulos Copy Share Image
I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change,… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
“Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be… — Soke Behzad Ahmadi Copy Share Image
Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle… — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation.… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes. Take away our delusional smiles if you must, snatch away our illusory… — Shruti Upadhaya Copy Share Image
Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
“Every aspect of the deeply religious persons life revolves around the delusion of a god. Once this belief is set, then science… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
