Delusion Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delusion Truth
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life—you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Delusion is what your society wants you to believe in, reality is what you see from your heart!” — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues… — Jeremy Shearmur Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions. — Claude Steiner Copy Share Image
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point,… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
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