“I have generally been denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious I am no Christian , except… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There is a current mythology in our culture that anytime we meet someone and have that "enchanted evening" experience, that experience of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive… — Choa Kok Sui Copy Share Image
Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have learned well the roles and scripts we people create for ourselves, and how afraid most people are of stepping outside… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“If you are proven to be right a hundred times in a row, no amount of evidence will convince you that you… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Confusion is like a delusion, it's like dust covering the mirror of your real potentials and identity followed by your true belief… — Mohsin Ali Shaukat Copy Share Image
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, “Delusion provides a certain,… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me -… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There is never a moment where I find Trump persuasive. When I look at him I see a man without any inner… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defines delusion as “a false conception and persistent belief unconquerable by reason in something that has no… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
“The single most important thing [you can do] is to shift [your] internal stance from "I understand" to "Help me understand." Everything… — Douglas Stone Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“If priests—of all clans—were free of disease and immune to death, then there might be some basis for the claim of the… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
![“The single most important thing [you can do] is to shift [your] internal stance from "I understand" to "Help me understand." Everything else follows from that. . . . Remind yourself that if you think you already understand how someone feels or what they are trying to say, it is a delusion…” quote by Douglas Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b4/douglas-stone-35730_delusion_the-single-most-important-thing-you-can_3144700.jpg)
