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
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this… — James Levine 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
Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord… — Stefan Zweig 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
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Feminists amuse me more than illusionists. They are the only type of people that can make an illogical argument seem even more… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
We should realize that our deadliest enemies are anger and other delusions. Since these delusions are deeply ingrained mental habits, working to… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
