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
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
If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It… — Philip Schaff 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
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
“Sympathy: That self-delusional feeling of assuming that someone you know, who is ignorant, depressed, frustrated, and losing much in life, and maybe… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Even in zazen you will lose yourself. When you become sleepy, or when your mind starts to wander about, you lose yourself.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that… — Mark Hodder Copy Share Image
“I find it strange how some men simply give up their soul to a woman, and act in obedience to their will.… — Lionel Suggs 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
You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, your brain doesn’t like or want to believe in randomness. It always believes you have some control, even when you don’t.… — Eric Barker Copy Share Image
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“Sweet delusion wrapped as an illusion, dripping from verses crafted in pain. Nothing cuts deeper, makes the biggest of ripples, than loneliness,… — Iva Hotko Copy Share Image
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys,… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
“That's right, I, Human, Do not change. Thinking I can change is nothing but a delusion Trying to change without true reflection… — Jinsoo Bae Copy Share Image
advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but… — Katherine Anne Porter 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
And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of mankind can’t tell the difference between love and lust, stupidity and arrogance, pragmatism and wisdom, or dream and… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
