For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief. — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
“And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion.” — The Noble Quran 3:185 Copy Share Image
One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Some do indeed demonstrate a remarkable resilience to facts, but like putty to a delusion.” — Saif Rahman Copy Share Image
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
People hold onto the wrong person because they THINK they can CHANGE them into the right person for them. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“Her hair looked like her hair in the dream and her eyes looked like her eyes in the dream, and as for… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and… — David Means Copy Share Image
From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds 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
Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Psychologists have finally proven that the entire justice system’s deep motives and its idea as a whole, which have existed for thousands… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
People know the truth, but they ignore it because they can't handle it. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image