Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. — Paul Sweeney Copy Share Image
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Believing without evidence is politely called religion, but more accurately called delusion.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Its amazing the delusion of being watched and expressing its exquisite beauty both illusions lies in the same jar.” — None Copy Share Image
It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery. — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
True bigotry is when you can't see the facts because your own beliefs are blocking the way. — Lawrence D Elliott Copy Share Image
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“That's right, I, Human, Do not change. Thinking I can change is nothing but a delusion Trying to change without true reflection… — Jinsoo Bae Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of mankind can’t tell the difference between love and lust, stupidity and arrogance, pragmatism and wisdom, or dream and… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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
“I find it strange how some men simply give up their soul to a woman, and act in obedience to their will.… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, "Littlewood's Miscellany."… — David McRaney 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“On the other hand, sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
