“The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
“If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the sea of delusion.” — Línjì Yìxuán Copy Share Image
“Too often we post mile markers to convince ourselves of a road that doesn’t exist and a journey that we’re not on.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special… — Bertrand Russell 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
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph,… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“...then he comes to the brink of a precipitous fall; that is, he comes to the point where he himself will have… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong… — Bruce Springsteen 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
As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho. — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image