Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
In a way, and I don't like to use this word, but delusion can be a good thing, it can be a… — Anthony Yarde Copy Share Image
Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Of course, that rationalization didn't work at all. It would have helped if I'd had some Oreo cookie ice cream to eat… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Delusion has its roots in pathology. It is a "false belief, held with absolute conviction, despite superior evidence." Delusion is a sign… — Corinne Mucha Copy Share Image
Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step.… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this… — James Levine 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
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 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
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
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
“Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Being trapped by fear is a form of delusion. Either I can do something or I can't. If I truly can't ...… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“The delusion lies in the fact that no matter how well we think we know the Other, we still judge from within… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If the Story is not accurate to reality, it's not any kind of truth at all. So it can never be 'my… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings.… — Jennifer Rubin Copy Share Image
Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...we are always entertaining the delusion that we will go on forever in this world. The result is that the very things… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength.… — Paul David Tripp 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
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
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of… — Stephen Sondheim 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
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