“delusion, and it won’t be long before you discover that you, too, “see” God in everything: that He is your only treasure,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there. — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur -… — Rick Mercer Copy Share Image
“Mortals live but their souls are little more than raw energy coursing through flesh. When they die that energy is broken down… — Plague Jack 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
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Rock stardom is hard work and it takes a team to make it happen. Also, communication is important because too often inexperienced… — David Ellefson Copy Share Image
The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as… — Philip Roth 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
The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
“A man who has suffered some humiliation invents a theory that he is King of England, and develops all kinds of ingenious… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
“The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The worldly life (sansar) is the thing created through delusion [wrong belief]. Therefore when you come to know about this wrong belief,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins 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
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Ingredients to a great relationship: Love, Respect, Trust, and Communication. If one is missing, then you're lying to yourself about how good… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything -… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“understood then, but these past years, seeing Bridger’s powers, I let myself fall into the delusion that Providence might be simple.” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image