“In the illusion of delusion, between madness and lawlessness I exist. I dream about dreams, about illusions and disillusions and cold and… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do… — Ryohgo Narita Copy Share Image
Tell everything to your spiritual father, and the Lord will have mercy on you and you will escape delusion. But if you… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I'm urging all my millennial peers and the young people coming up behind us to look for signs and symptoms of them… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
“The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with… — Erik Pevernagie 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
Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“The first time he had taken the massa to one of these "high-falutin' to-dos," as Bell called them, Kunta had been all… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“And I still believe that there are two basic kinds of people--people who cultivate the narcissistic delusion of being watched at all… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“history tells us of the case of a man living under the peculiar delusion that he was a fried egg. Quite how… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On Make America Great Again: The agenda of a dead body coming back to life. Whenever you have the past (what is… — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
“I arrive home with pink flushed cheeks and glittering green-blue eyes. The hardest part is the his smell that lingers on my… — Elizabeth Heller Copy Share Image
There are certain ways you have to delude yourself. Self-delusion is important, for instance in family life. You know what I mean?… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“If, as you say, our minds are delusion generators, then we’re all like blind and deaf sea captains shouting orders into the… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“You made me human. I stand by that. You made me into somebody I would have wanted to become, if I'd ever… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
“A man who has suffered some humiliation invents a theory that he is King of England, and develops all kinds of ingenious… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Mass delusion is the result of the effort. Propaganda is one of the techniques. But it mentioned things like you create a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Class consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image