{"quotes":[{"text":"A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie.","author":"Joe Blow","tags":["delusion","faith","psychology"],"id":4557,"author_id":"Joe+Blow"},{"text":"What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["deception","delusion","fantasy","personal","reality","reveal","self-deception","take-for-granted","thinking","truth"],"id":6337,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["death","delusion"],"id":15283,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"},{"text":"I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be 'authority', and so do their bidding, and pay for their empires, and carry out their orders. I don't care if there's one looney with a stupid moustache. He's not a threat if the people do not believe in 'authority'.","author":"Larken Rose","tags":["anarchy","ancap","delusion","freedom","government","libertarian","liberty","statism","superstition","voluntaryism"],"id":17972,"author_id":"Larken+Rose"},{"text":"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.","author":"David McRaney","tags":["coincidence","delusion","psychology","statistics"],"id":20030,"author_id":"David+McRaney"},{"text":"Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["delusion","discolored","faint","hate","mind","mind-power","obsession","obsessions","seep","soaking"],"id":28853,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"The mind is just a delusion not a reality. If the materials are perception of our mind, then why we cannot turn into handsome guys and beautiful ladies without putting a hundred grams of makeup powder?","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["beautiful","delusion","handsome","makeup","materials","mind","perception","powder","reality"],"id":37316,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["delusion","honesty","integrity","psychology","self-esteem","self-knowledge","subconscious","unconscious"],"id":39055,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They're only allowed as much reality as serves the masters. But they're not allowed any reality which disturbs their masters...","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["delusion","people","philosophy","reality","society"],"id":42519,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"The mirror ever lies.","author":"Michael R. Fletcher","tags":["delusion","lies","mirror"],"id":42616,"author_id":"Michael+R.+Fletcher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":173,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}