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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without… — Camille Paglia
Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are preventable' the rest… — Rob Long
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If… — Alfred Korzybski
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. — Richard Dawkins
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion. — Robert Todd Carroll
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. — Stephen Jay Gould
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of… — Paul Watzlawick
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I answer, 'He is… — J C Ryle
Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial. — John Bradshaw
Whatever you think is delusion. — Dainin Katagiri
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions. — Claude Steiner
If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we… — George Whitefield
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the… — Learned Hand
I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into… — Arthur Koestler
Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology. — Unknown Author
The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority… — George Galloway
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer
To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed. — Christopher Paolini
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged… — Michiko Kakutani
If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard… — Max Scheler
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton
We chart delusions through collective agreement. — Siri Hustvedt
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… — Michael Ruse
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. — Michael Ruse
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. — Sean Parker

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