She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Perhaps one day we will do “everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.”… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
“In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me -… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
“James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, “Delusion provides a certain,… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“It has always been hard for me to talk about Julian without romanticizing him. In many ways, I loved him the most… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and… — David Means Copy Share Image
I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“That's right, I, Human, Do not change. Thinking I can change is nothing but a delusion Trying to change without true reflection… — Jinsoo Bae Copy Share Image
advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of mankind can’t tell the difference between love and lust, stupidity and arrogance, pragmatism and wisdom, or dream and… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys,… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Sweet delusion wrapped as an illusion, dripping from verses crafted in pain. Nothing cuts deeper, makes the biggest of ripples, than loneliness,… — Iva Hotko Copy Share Image
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, your brain doesn’t like or want to believe in randomness. It always believes you have some control, even when you don’t.… — Eric Barker Copy Share Image
Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are… — Rob Long Copy Share Image
