#delusion

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#blessings #clouded-thoughts #confusion #delusions #doubt

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#celebrity #delusion #gives #importance #self

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#concept #days #delusions #depression #excuse

The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it no higher) of Clinton. I used leftist categories to measure him, in other words, and to show how idiotic was the belief that he was a liberal's champion. Again, more leftists than you might think were on my side or in my corner, and the book was published by Verso, which is the publishing arm of the New Left Review. However, if a near-majority of leftists and liberals choose to think that Clinton was the target of a witch-hunt and the victim of 'sexual McCarthyism', an Arkansan Alger Hiss in other words, you become weary of debating on their terms and leave them to make the best of it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arkansas #bill-clinton #corruption #cowardice #debate

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. ↗

— Ludwig Borne

#getting #hold #makes #rid #than

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #avoid #back #bed #better

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#almost #become #been #cause #delusion

With gentleness, Overcome anger. With generosity, Overcome meanness. With truth, Overcome delusion. ↗

— The Dhammapada

#delusion #generosity #truth #anger

When all else fails there's always delusion. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#delusion #else #fails #when all else fails

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#delusions #events #every #false #into