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delusion
«Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.»
Author: Marilyn French
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, delusion, Greeks, lucid, self-destruction, taking over
«There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Learning,
Miracles
| Keywords:
attest, attested, attesting, attests, delusion, good sense, miracle man, unquestioned
«What you do not wish to do out of delusion; you shall do even that against your will, bound by your own nature-born Karma, O Arjuna.»
«What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion. We may succeed in altering the face of the earth until it is unrecognizable even to the Creator, but if we are unaffected wherein lies the meaning?»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
chess, Chess Pieces, delusion, Down from the Mountain, frustrated, harnessed, harnesses, harnessing, mountain range, mow, mowed, mowing, mows, populations, ranges, range of mountains, restless, rivers, unaffected, unrecognizable, utter, wherein
«These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-song, their triumphs and defiance, their dismal and prophecies, are all delusion»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
declamation, declamations, delusion, dismal, Prophecies, reproaches, triumphs