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Letter "D" » delusion
«Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.»
«All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
analyze, analyzed, analyzes, delusion, lunatics, philosopher
«A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
| Keywords:
creating, delusion, hindrance, hindrances, satisfying, snare, unlimited
«And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: / That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.»
«DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. --Mumfrey Mappel»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mankind
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«A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
delusion, patriotic, sense of humor
«Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
affirmation, affirmations, beginning, delusion, discipline, Disciplining, The Beginning
«Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.»
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