Delusion Quote by James Baldwin Download Open image ““One must be careful not to take refuge in any delusion.”” — James Baldwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delusion Immigration Perspicacity Self -awareness
“Actually, even in the stage of delusion (absence of self realization), one should protect the weak and fight a powerful one. But people keep… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“We are all blinded by our beliefs. Never stop questioning and realize only respectful discussions can free us from our delusions.” — JIm Steele Copy Share Image
“We are all blinded by our beliefs. So we must never stop questioning and then only respectful discussions can free us from delusions.” — Jim Steele Copy Share Image
“You can keep your passive hope and blind faith, and I’ll take the despair. Because at least the despair is real. I’d rather live… — Evan Grinde Copy Share Image
“Delusion has a way of becoming part of life when you least expect it, or maybe when you most need it.” — Julia Kent Copy Share Image
“Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.” — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
“Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart.” — Ryokan Copy Share Image
“Have no delusions of grandeur or plotting schemes. Have flawless confidence because you are worthy and sacred.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“Taking refuge in the hopeless nature of anything was just a form of cowardice.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be… — James Baldwin Copy Share
“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live, and have lived here, are so ugly… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“All cultures have, furthermore, an economic, social, and political base, and no culture can continue to live if its political destiny is not in its own hands. “Any political and social regime which destroys the self-determination of a people also destroys the creative power of that people.” When this has happened the culture of that people has been destroyed. And… — James Baldwin Copy Share
“I remembered that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indiffrently above us, hours and days had… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps now, though, he had hit bottom. One thing about the bottom, he told himself, you can't fall any further. He tried to take… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“What kind of friendship have you had? Or for that matter...what kind of love affairs?” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not know what he has done to merit it. And when he realizes that the treatment accorded him has nothing to do with anything he has done, that the attempt of white people to destroy him—for that… — James Baldwin Copy Share
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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