Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
In a way, and I don't like to use this word, but delusion can be a good thing, it can be a… — Anthony Yarde 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
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life… — Zhuangzi 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
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
“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
Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted… — Alice Munro 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
“You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Delusion has its roots in pathology. It is a "false belief, held with absolute conviction, despite superior evidence." Delusion is a sign… — Corinne Mucha Copy Share Image
“Of course, that rationalization didn't work at all. It would have helped if I'd had some Oreo cookie ice cream to eat… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
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
“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
Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The delusion lies in the fact that no matter how well we think we know the Other, we still judge from within… — John Howard Griffin 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
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
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
“...we are always entertaining the delusion that we will go on forever in this world. The result is that the very things… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings.… — Jennifer Rubin Copy Share Image
Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength.… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion… — H. L. Mencken 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
A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
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