Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions. — Rudolf Wanderone Copy Share Image
I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
“It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“Being here with him is safety; it’s a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside. This is a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Maybe the most dangerous thing about the “Illuminati” isn’t that such a master cabal has ever existed, but that some people believe… — Richard B. Spence Copy Share Image
“The mind is just a delusion not a reality. If the materials are perception of our mind, then why we cannot turn… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn… — Richard Dawkins 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
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
There are certain ways you have to delude yourself. Self-delusion is important, for instance in family life. You know what I mean?… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“You made me human. I stand by that. You made me into somebody I would have wanted to become, if I'd ever… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“If, as you say, our minds are delusion generators, then we’re all like blind and deaf sea captains shouting orders into the… — Scott Adams 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
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees. — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training. — Chris Pratt 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
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
“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 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
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
“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
“The long-deluded will at last see the truth, and thus their expressions will have seen a ghost.” — Criss Jami 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
“God, in the sense defined, is a delusion; and, as later chapters will show, a pernicious delusion.” — Richard Dawkins 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
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
Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
