Perhaps one day we will do “everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.”… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective'… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
“one deceives oneself and unconsciously believes that real true passion is stirring one’s soul; one unconsciously believes that there is something living,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are… — Rob Long Copy Share Image
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“It has always been hard for me to talk about Julian without romanticizing him. In many ways, I loved him the most… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick… — Matilde Serao 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
Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate… — Anohni Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would… — Ernest Hello Copy Share Image
The distortions of society today derive from a confusion of wisdom, which is holistic, and knowledge, which is fragmentary; and an inability… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value,… — Shannon L. Alder 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
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
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
If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be… — Mooji Copy Share Image
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“If men had not this delusion as to the ultra-importance of their own particular employments, I suppose that they would sit down… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
