#delusion

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#delusion #far #grasp #however #persist

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

— Carl Sagan

#delusion #far #grasp #however #me

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. ↗

— Walter Wager

#delusion #i #keep #library #manuscripts

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

#believe #briefly #center #delusion #else

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#anything #delusional #life #life is too short #notions

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#delusional #enough #i #i do #important

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' ↗

— Arthur Smith

#backwards #better #book #delusions #excellent

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#scales #self-delusion #step #stomach #you

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#knowledge #rationalism #science #self-delusion #science

We live, I suppose, in the unconfessed hope that the rules will at some point be broken, along with the normal course of things and custom and history, and that this will happen to us, that we will experience it, that we — that is, I alone — will be the ones to see it. We always aspire, I suppose, to being the chosen ones, and it is unlikely otherwise that we would be prepared to live out the entire course of an entire life, which, however short or long, gradually gets the better of us. ↗

— Javier Marías

#exceptionalism #optimism #experience