“When we are lost in delusion, it's hard to see even the most obvious truths.” — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. — Horace Copy Share Image
The idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they… — Nicholas Rescher Copy Share Image
It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy! — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special—otherwise “special” wouldn’t mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking,… — Tim Urban Copy Share Image
“It is no so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“All she ever said to me about him was You can only love a person that much once in your life, and… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers,… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Nick’s right, you are psychotic. (Talon) The correct term is sociopathic and yes, I am. But at least I have no delusions… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“When one person sees or hears something that isn’t there, it’s called a delusion. When a small group of people have the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
