Beware of ‘god men’ and ‘god women’. Even people who have not been depressed for a day in their lives get sucked into the seductive delusion of spirituality. If you must seek, seek by yourself,...

That’s the fundamental delusion – that there is something out there that will make you happy forever.

I can’t prove it yet know it when I seem it.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

Life is a planetary level phenomenon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable—the rhetoric of the...

There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a luminosity to it. Just one Christian of that type can dispel years worth...

The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.

We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course of things and custom and history, and that this will happen to us,...

Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind’s delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and fitting in.

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page....

I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire...

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What’s the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep?...

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and...

Seaside Studies,” will perceive that science excites poetry rather than extinguishes it. And whoever will contemplate the life of Goethe will see that the poet and the man of science can co-exist in equal activity....

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

The mind is just a delusion not a reality. If the materials are perception of our mind, then why we cannot turn into handsome guys and beautiful ladies without putting a hundred grams of makeup...

Lies don’t make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you’re spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.

And in that moment he realised that even though the dreams they’d seen together, hoped for and believed in had come true, it wasn’t enough. It was far from reality which was lonesome and woeful....

Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.

If you keep looking at your business wishes as delusional dreams you will end up running just another one of them. If you get inspired by your business wishes then plan to find a way...

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue; which is of itself...

Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.

Eblis said, “No man who thinks ill, will hear the truth despite a hundred signs.When one who fantasises is presented with reason his fantasies increase.When one talks to such a person, their words become the...

O how we call each other namesYou call me schizophrenicI call you GodBut we do agree on oneDeluded are we both.

I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous...

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

The first time he had taken the massa to one of these “high-falutin’ to-dos,” as Bell called them, Kunta had been all but overwhelmed by conflicting emotions: awe, indignation, envy, contempt, fascination, revulsion—but most of...

The times might be unpleasant, repulsive. The ghastly chaos, the abhorrent uncivility might be intolerable, might force us into argument or leave us panic-stricken.On such occasions people build within themselves a conviction, that the world...

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

We want our delusions and will violently defend these when confronted. We want to believe that the job that is slowly choking us is good, because the effort it would take to change is too...

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends the conversation. It cuts off inquiry: not only factual inquiry, but moral inquiry....

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

To commit the act of felo-de-se is a form of delusion. You see, my love, to leave one’s life unfinished implies the possibility of success. What is left unlived may contain the potential truth one...

Death cannot stop true love. That’s why it’s pointless for me to try to murder all my adoring female fans.

Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That’s like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. They hadn’t appreciated her inability to understand something quite obvious – that Tolya was no longer...

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

How can I clearly see what’s wrong with someone else, and then look at myself as though I’m standing in front of a fogged mirror?

[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.