To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,'… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“If priests—of all clans—were free of disease and immune to death, then there might be some basis for the claim of the… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. — John Ralston Saul 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
“The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. They hadn't appreciated… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they… — Nicholas Rescher Copy Share Image
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than… — Leo Strauss 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
“Any comfort you find in hating someone who speaks the truth is short-lived—and often replaced by regret.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
“Oh, wait a minute, I was supposed to be cutting back on the self-delusion, wasn't I? Whoops.” — Jason Krumbine Copy Share Image
A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
