“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
From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal,… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army?… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without… — Carl Whitaker Copy Share Image
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Forms of energy from nature gave my father trouble. He refused to believe he was going to die. He had these weird… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the… — Anne Tyler 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
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
“I find it strange how some men simply give up their soul to a woman, and act in obedience to their will.… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
