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Letter "D" » delusion
«No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.»
«Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.»
Author: Daniel S. Greenberg
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Love
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delusion, have sex, justify, justifying, manufacture, manufactured, manufactures, Manufacturing, take to, the self
«Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.»
«Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.»
«There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.»
Author: Louis Aragon
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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black light, characteristics, companion, corollary, delusion, dispense, dispense with, flatter, imagines, landscape, signally, There exists
«One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve»
Author: Nicholas Rescher
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Reality
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adolescent, adolescents, delusion, Fates, labors, properly, realities, the Fates
«Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales»
«Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Love
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delusion, differed, differs, one-woman
«There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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delusion, dogmatism, existing, finality, modes, self-satisfied
«Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.»
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