You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“One day, you're going to have to realize she's dead and that she's not coming back. You need to wake up from… — Natalia Schellhaas 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
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
The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There’s a curious courage to them both: they believe in a political reality which is utterly terrifying, and they’re fighting it. Joe… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
When we are high on our ego we are suffering from self-delusion, and self-delusion always leads to confusion and turmoil. Therefore respect… — Anil SInha Copy Share Image
Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield… — Phillip Moffitt Copy Share Image
We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Don't think I haven't considered that I might be what normies call insane. I consider it constantly, and I'm half convinced it's… — J.R. McConvey Copy Share Image
Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“The danger of delusion was made worse, by the love of delusion. What's best for me and what is worst for me,… — Mark Booth Copy Share Image
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
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