All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Delusion is what your society wants you to believe in, reality is what you see from your heart!” — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that… — Herbert Spencer 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
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they… — Hampton Fancher 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
For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that… — Mark Hodder Copy Share Image
There is a current mythology in our culture that anytime we meet someone and have that "enchanted evening" experience, that experience of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Her hair looked like her hair in the dream and her eyes looked like her eyes in the dream, and as for… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Mass delusion is the result of the effort. Propaganda is one of the techniques. But it mentioned things like you create a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image