When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change. — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. — Walter Wager Copy Share Image
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at… — W. W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor,… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that… — Daniel O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the… — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Copy Share Image
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools…And as for sustained yield, no such idea had… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the… — Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Even now I cannot believe that I am still alive and writing this account of the emperor's death. I put my hands… — Anna Comnena Copy Share Image
“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
