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Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural… — Charles Spurgeon
But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do… — Byron Katie
Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and… — Pat Buchanan
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are… — Michael Crichton
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are… — Philip Zimbardo
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased… — E. O. Wilson
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes… — Joseph Story
Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which… — Dalai Lama
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that… — Leonard Bishop
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve. — Unknown Author
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or… — Unknown Author
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no… — L. Ron Hubbard
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the… — Sogyal Rinpoche
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness. — Emanuel Swedenborg
As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own… — H. L. Mencken
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will… — Mahatma Gandhi
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. — Unknown Author
Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world… — Arthur Schopenhauer
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for… — Robert Musil
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that… — Leo Tolstoy
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar. — Leonardo da Vinci
There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls… — Ernest Hello
I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is… — Thomas Paine

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