The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“Practicality rules our perceptions. To survive, our tiny brains need to tame the blizzard of delusion generator information that threatens to overwhelm… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I am trying to change hip-hop music because I do feel there are places people can go with production and the structure… — El-P Copy Share Image
“I would judge the sanest man to be him who most firmly realizes the tragic isolation of humanity and pursues his essential… — Joe Gould Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche mourns the loss of “man’s belief in his dignity, his uniqueness, his irreplace-ability in the scheme of existence.” For me, it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the… — Paul Watzlawick 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
“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 promise of learning is a delusion… Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“I wasn't born a victim of life nor its slave. I just became a victim of circumstances at the mercy of the… — Hans Lindor Copy Share Image
The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our… — Stephen Mitchell 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
Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions. — Claude Steiner Copy Share Image
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early. — Wayne Knight Copy Share Image
Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Most of our fears are much bigger in our minds than they are in reality. We'll see this for ourselves as soon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“The reason so many people are unhappy is, for the most part, delusion. They believe the predominant myths that our culture propagates… — Woody Hochswender Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I get to wondering if I really can write or if I'm just being delusional...then I decide it doesn't matter because… — Bea Cannon Copy Share Image
