“I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be… — Soke Behzad Ahmadi Copy Share Image
I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change,… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire… — Chris Diamantopoulos Copy Share Image
“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist.… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
“Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and… — Stefan Molyneux 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
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
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
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
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Simultaneously (in the inner voice of a female American cultural studies professor): Only meaning can make a difference and we all know… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If you feel disconnected from reality or the 3D world, you can still become wealthy or financially stable by tapping into the… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“Every aspect of the deeply religious persons life revolves around the delusion of a god. Once this belief is set, then science… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them,… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes. Take away our delusional smiles if you must, snatch away our illusory… — Shruti Upadhaya Copy Share Image
The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation.… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle… — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
