One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by… — Thomas Reed 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
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
“It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process,… — Adrienne Rich 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
Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.” — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science,… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. — Henri Poincare 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
Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
