#delusion

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

Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know. (Thwonk) ↗

— Joan Bauer

#belief #business #catering #food #humor

In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#eliminate #life #managing #nourish #poison

J. E. Littlewood, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote about the law of truly large numbers in his 1986 book, "Littlewood's Miscellany." He said the average person is alert for about eight hours every day, and something happens to the average person about once a second. At this rate, you will experience 1 million events every thirty-five days. This means when you say the chances of something happening are one in a million, it also means about once a month. The monthly miracle is called Littlewood's Law. ↗

— David McRaney

#delusion #psychology #statistics #experience

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe. ↗

— Voltaire

#brain

Humans see what they want to see. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humans #mankind #perception #self-delusion #willful-ignorance

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending that things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#life-lessons #perspective #life

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#accepted #based #delusion #foundation #i