“It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion”
Henry Louis Mencken
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
“Any iota of something, anything, everything can be just a delusion, can be fake, can be a front, can be an act, can be a mask. It's just as well that any iota of something, anything, everything can also be the single most real thing in the entire universe.”
Astraea L. Skylar
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”
Rain Bojangles
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
Douglas H. Everett
