Bible Quote by Dave Champion

“The moment one begins to believe in delusions that are not of their own creation is when conflict arises.”

— VD

The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably…

— Edward Gibbon

“Delusions create the most compelling of beliefs.”

— Amish Tripathi

“We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know…

— Thomas Mann

“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given…

— Richard Mitchell

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes…

— Sigmund Freud

“In the perusal of philosophical works I have been greatly benefited by a resolve, which, in the antithetic form and with the allowed quaintness…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Shall I think that the Creator has made man so as to leave him to debate endlessly in the intellectual miseries that surround us?…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“If our polls are to be trusted, nearly 230 million Americans believe that a book showing neither unity of style nor internal consistency was…

— Sam Harris

“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs,…

— Emil Cioran

“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts…

— Ross Douthat

“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the…

— Milan Kundera