Deluded Quote by William Butler Yeats

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

— Thomas Jefferson

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

— George Santayana

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

— E. O. Wilson

In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to…

— George Henry Lewes

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay,…

— Watchman Nee

“If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the rest of…

— Edward M. Wolfe

The world belongs to the discontented.

— Oscar Wilde

A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to…

— Walter Benjamin

I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all…

— George Washington

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

— Samuel Richardson

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

— Anonymous

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer