That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is… — Dogen 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
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When one person sees or hears something that isn’t there, it’s called a delusion. When a small group of people have the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any… — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Some 'advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“...then he comes to the brink of a precipitous fall; that is, he comes to the point where he himself will have… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
“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
“In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something. — Vernon Howard 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
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
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
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
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
By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by… — Thomas Reed Copy Share Image
Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. — John Terraine Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
