The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me? — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.” — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When a person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when a number of people suffer from a delusion it is… — Lekan Wahab Copy Share Image
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. HENRI POINCARÉ (1854–1912)” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“[My] theory of risk is that it is better to take a substantial holding of what one believes in than scatter holdings… — Allen C. Benello Copy Share Image
When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
“Pain's a delusion." Oh, is it?" said the Savage and, picking up a thick hzel switch, strode forward. The man from the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else’s… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
“Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity. But when the mirror smashes… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic… — Jaak Panksepp Copy Share Image
“It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief. — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
![“[My] theory of risk is that it is better to take a substantial holding of what one believes in than scatter holdings in fields where he has not the same assurance. But perhaps that is based on the delusion of possessing a worthwhile opinion on the matter.” quote by Allen C. Benello](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e40/allen-c-benello-45829_risk_my-theory-of-risk-is-that-it-is-better-t_1360885.jpg)
![“Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.” quote by Michael Ruse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/michael-ruse-35791_atheist_their-the-new-atheists-treatment-of-the_1955646.jpg)
![“Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs…” quote by Louisa May Alcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c55/louisa-may-alcott-318_book_education-is-not-confined-to-books-and-t_776342.png)
