It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. — Carl Sagan 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
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any… — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world.… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
“There was a time he’d heard tales of Dab Sweet and he’d stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky… — Joe Abercrombie 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
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is this the life you really want, constant delusion. Your time with me was very fun, there's no illusion. — Serani Copy Share Image
man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his… — Ellen Sturgis Hooper Copy Share Image
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
