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We should realize that our deadliest enemies are anger and other delusions. Since these delusions are deeply ingrained mental habits, working to overcome them is… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any… — Mahatma Gandhi
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead
You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A… — Zadie Smith
The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports… — William Sanderson
We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is… — Swami Vivekananda
Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we… — Susan Jacoby
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him — Heinz von Foerster
Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. — John Terraine
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It… — Paul Valery
Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce
I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated. — Louise Erdrich
Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down]… — Alice Munro
The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost… — Jack Kornfield
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak… — Clarence Darrow
We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained… — Kenny Smith
Should a reasonable person not demand that philosophy should not be foolishly purveyed before people incompetent to see the point of it, as pearls before… — Kenny Smith
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens… — Kenny Smith
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a… — Kenny Smith
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters… — Hiroshi Sugimoto
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or… — Camille Paglia

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