A self-centered life will have a tendency to confuse its selfish desire with God's will. — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. — Hakuun Yasutani Copy Share Image
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is… — Augustus Toplady Copy Share Image
We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core,… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“history tells us of the case of a man living under the peculiar delusion that he was a fried egg. Quite how… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“On Make America Great Again: The agenda of a dead body coming back to life. Whenever you have the past (what is… — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I arrive home with pink flushed cheeks and glittering green-blue eyes. The hardest part is the his smell that lingers on my… — Elizabeth Heller 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
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss. — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
“It all makes more sense when I'm out here alone," he smiled. "I can talk myself into anything.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You have to have a level of delusion to think, I can really sustain myself pretending to be other people. — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves. — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
“It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.’ ‘Oh, there is,’ said Susan. ‘Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end. — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Isaiah’s final announcement was that their confidence that God would not judge them was a delusion (Isa. 28:21–29). “But God defended” — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image