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At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain tro...

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The nature of conspiracy, which among those who both feared and named it, seemed to always possess a...

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In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.

The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. Th...

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There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing...

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Wallace StegnerThe Big Rock Candy Mountain

People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted ...

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Blaise PascalThe Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

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

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, wh...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their p...

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Charles MackayExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve t...

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Chris HedgesEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

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The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The impor...

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Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror

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

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosag...

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I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mo...

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We dream — it is good we are dreaming —It would hurt us — were we awake —But since it is playing — k...

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Emily DickinsonFinal Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick).

The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge o...

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Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea...

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Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think y...

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I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me ...

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And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?

. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, ...

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Jeremy BenthamConstitutional Code; For the Use All Nations and All Governments Professing Liberal Opinions Volume 1

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

We believe we have dived down to the most unfathomable depths, and when we reappear on the surface, ...

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Maurice MaeterlinckThe Treasure of the humble

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the b...

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Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselv...

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How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, ther...

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The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

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

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude ...

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If anything keep thy soul out of heaven, which God forbid, there is nothing in the world liker to do...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

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

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

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

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

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[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie ...

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Sam HarrisThe End of Faith: Religion

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

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Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

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