Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“As long as people want the Mormon Church to be true, more than they are willing to face the possibility that it… — Jim Whitefield Copy Share Image
Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
“There is never a moment where I find Trump persuasive. When I look at him I see a man without any inner… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defines delusion as “a false conception and persistent belief unconquerable by reason in something that has no… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“There’s a curious courage to them both: they believe in a political reality which is utterly terrifying, and they’re fighting it. Joe… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
When we are high on our ego we are suffering from self-delusion, and self-delusion always leads to confusion and turmoil. Therefore respect… — Anil SInha Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield… — Phillip Moffitt Copy Share Image
We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The distortions of society today derive from a confusion of wisdom, which is holistic, and knowledge, which is fragmentary; and an inability… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would… — Ernest Hello Copy Share Image
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate… — Anohni Copy Share Image
A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective'… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“one deceives oneself and unconsciously believes that real true passion is stirring one’s soul; one unconsciously believes that there is something living,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
