Delusions Quotes

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When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at… — Victor J. Stenger
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions. — Vernon Howard
Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve the problem of anger, we… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatanâ€”at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters… — Hiroshi Sugimoto
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. — Horace
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be… — Henry David Thoreau
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the… — Bertrand Russell
Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly. — Robert Breault
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and… — Raymond Chandler
When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion — Anthony Storr
Not creating delusions is enlightenment. — Bodhidharma
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. — Bodhidharma

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