Delusion Quote by Henry Louis Mencken Download Open image “Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another” — Henry Louis Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delusion Love
“A man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, at… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I was merely making more perceptible that binary rhythm which love adopts in all those who have too little confidence in themselves to believe… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own… — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it? — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There is a degree of resemblance between the women we love at different times; and this resemblance, though it devolves, derives from the unchanging… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“«I love both her and them. I have come to understand that she is what they are. A woman accepts a man, expecting that… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“The specter of unrequited love can strike at any time, reducing even the most fearless, independent woman to a weepy wreck” — Abby McDonald Copy Share Image
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
“An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic… — Henry Louis Mencken 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, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
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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