Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and… — David Means Copy Share Image
“You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize. The idea that there's somewhere we have got to… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“That's the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores--when… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view… — Brooke Westcott Copy Share Image
O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Feminists amuse me more than illusionists. They are the only type of people that can make an illogical argument seem even more… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow,… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
“I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people.… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without… — Carl Whitaker Copy Share Image
