“That's the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores--when… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that… — Mark Hodder Copy Share Image
The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I find it strange how some men simply give up their soul to a woman, and act in obedience to their will.… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Even in zazen you will lose yourself. When you become sleepy, or when your mind starts to wander about, you lose yourself.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Sympathy: That self-delusional feeling of assuming that someone you know, who is ignorant, depressed, frustrated, and losing much in life, and maybe… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Most people hold onto what could happen instead of what's really happening. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur -… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance). — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step.… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
If the Story is not accurate to reality, it's not any kind of truth at all. So it can never be 'my… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
“Being trapped by fear is a form of delusion. Either I can do something or I can't. If I truly can't ...… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
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