Quotes about Delusion

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The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Personal discontent and lost illusion is the catalysis and the principal theme for every book ever written. The sign of — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. — Stefan Molyneux
July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil — Stefan Molyneux
for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which — Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Redemption. What a laughable concept. When he looked over his life, he couldn't see where he had first stepped off the r — Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the — Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately — Lolah Runda, Hikari Okami: Kitsune Series
Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for — Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any co — Michael Coren, Why Catholics are Right
The court system is the graveyard where Trump's fanciful delusions will be laid to rest. — Chad Almadani
Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with th — Danail Hristov, The End of the Jesus Era
So, if someone like Richard Dawkins indignantly protests that his passion about these sorts of things -- the passion tha — Michael Ruse
At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the — Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Del UsionIf you knew the personHe thinks he isYou'd have to admitHe's one very special guy. — Laurence Overmire, Gone Hollywood
I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour. — Aesop, Aesop's Fables
We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course of — Javier Marías, Fever and Spear
It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of — Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindl — Shannon L. Alder
In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign. — Ted Hughes