“True or False? The delusion that doing well in school will win me love has disfigured my life. Discuss in 5-7 pages.” — Terry Castle Copy Share Image
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
No greater invention was ever devised for creating the delusion of productivity than the personal computer, except for religion. — Rock Cowles 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
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“...we are always entertaining the delusion that we will go on forever in this world. The result is that the very things… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings.… — Jennifer Rubin Copy Share Image
There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From… — Bob Dylan 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
“The delusion lies in the fact that no matter how well we think we know the Other, we still judge from within… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this… — James Levine Copy Share Image
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path… — Peter F. Hamilton 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
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools…And as for sustained yield, no such idea had… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood,… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor. — Thinley Norbu 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
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe. — Reb Anderson Copy Share Image
“vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end” — Peter M. Senge Copy Share Image
The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. — Daniel S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal. — Felix Dennis 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
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Apes throw tantrum when they are insecure, pursuit of delusion soothes the vegetated.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God. — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
“Go on down to the local palm reader, she'll spit out exactly what you feed her because honey, you already knew your… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50. Think of it as only 1 year older than 59 Go ahead,… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
