Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
“In an instant he saw the delusion of his five hundred years. He was not looking into a box; he was looking… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“We all have a central fiction about ourselves, a favored delusion about talent or untapped potential. Most of us hang on to… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing -… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“I have ever had the conviction, resistant to all rational considerations, that at some unspecified future moment the continuous rehearsal which is… — John Banville Copy Share Image
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The mind is just a delusion not a reality. If the materials are perception of our mind, then why we cannot turn… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Maybe the most dangerous thing about the “Illuminati” isn’t that such a master cabal has ever existed, but that some people believe… — Richard B. Spence Copy Share Image
Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche mourns the loss of “man’s belief in his dignity, his uniqueness, his irreplace-ability in the scheme of existence.” For me, it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I would judge the sanest man to be him who most firmly realizes the tragic isolation of humanity and pursues his essential… — Joe Gould Copy Share Image
I am trying to change hip-hop music because I do feel there are places people can go with production and the structure… — El-P Copy Share Image
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Practicality rules our perceptions. To survive, our tiny brains need to tame the blizzard of delusion generator information that threatens to overwhelm… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm trippin, full of delusion, maybe it come from all the drugs I was usin', maybe I am the best that… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over… — Jim Rohn 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
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or… — Alexander Alekhine 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
