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
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry — Eric S. Raymond 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
“Delusion has its roots in pathology. It is a "false belief, held with absolute conviction, despite superior evidence." Delusion is a sign… — Corinne Mucha Copy Share Image
Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
In a way, and I don't like to use this word, but delusion can be a good thing, it can be a… — Anthony Yarde Copy Share Image
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this… — Nick Flynn 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
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then… — Chuck Lorre 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
Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the… — Jacob Bigelow 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
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free. — Mooji Copy Share Image
I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy! — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man. — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. — Horace Copy Share Image
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions. — Charles Spurgeon 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
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots." - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium” — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and… — David Means Copy Share Image
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Delusional or not, maybe if I believe in a better world with enough conviction, and convince others to believe it as well,… — Emilyann Girdner Copy Share Image
When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
