And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and… — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view… — Brooke Westcott Copy Share Image
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
I don't know what people want. I have delusions of grandeur, but I'm not sitting here talking to you and thinking that… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being humble and being gullible. Those who cant distinguish live a sad life of arrogant ignorance and blind… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and… — Thomas Thomson Copy Share Image
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for… — William Borah Copy Share Image
I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
When you REALLY love someone you don't want to believe that they DON'T love you. So, you look for signs and convince… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
