The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive… — Choa Kok Sui Copy Share Image
“That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.” — Wally Lamb We Are Water Copy Share Image
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no… — William Hazlitt 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
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“We are quiet, contemplative people, and our behaviour in the field is relatively aristocratic. Running is not necessarily beneath our dignity but… — Fredrik Sjöberg Copy Share Image
I flattered myself that I was rather empathetic, that I had rather good imaginative empathy. I've realized now that that was a… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
“I am in good company, simply following those in front of me and knowing others are following behind. We are on our… — Sven Lindqvist Copy Share Image
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“Too many companies— and individuals— are befuddled by delusion when it comes to identifying their authentic strengths and projecting those strengths through… — Tom Hayes Copy Share Image
To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
