Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored. — El-P Copy Share Image
Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things… — Dogen 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
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The fool who knows he is a fool is for that very reason wise. The fool who thinks himself wise is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance). — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur -… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another,… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
