I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. — Albert Einstein
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds. — Anne Nicol Gaylor
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him. — Richard Dawkins
Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is "God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet." — Wolfgang Pauli
There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
If there is a God, he is a malign thug. — Mark Twain
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option. — PZ Myers
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. — Martin Amis
God's only excuse is that he does not exist. — Stendhal
Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God — Steven Weinberg
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
Short Delusions Quotes
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. — Jim Rohn
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. — Guru Nanak
That’s the fundamental delusion. — Naval Ravikant
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. — Jane Wagner
Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out. — Groucho Marx
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism. — Richard Dawkins
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. — Rose Macaulay
I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training. — Chris Pratt
Making a stallion out of a mosquito. — Romanian Proverbs
Delusions Image Quotes
Life is winging it. To suggest otherwise is delusional.
Religion Delusion Quotes
A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion. — Robert M. Pirsig
When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, You re welcome to your delusions, but don't say that they're supported by science. — Sayings
I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions. — Bjorn Ulvaeus
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. — Thomas Jefferson
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — Richard Dawkins
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God — Thomas Jefferson
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky. — George Carlin
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God. — George H. W. Bush
I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge. — H. P. Lovecraft
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson
Believing In God Quotes
Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live. — Mother Angelica
This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven. — Ray Comfort
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man. — Jose Rizal
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything. — Blaise Pascal
I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them. — Gene Wilder
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches. — C. S. Lewis
You ask me 'What’s the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God’s word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does. — Paul Washer
Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts. — J. Cole
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Delusion Quotes
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. — Adi Shankara
If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience. — George Whitefield
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. — Carl Sagan
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement. — William Golding
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. — Ramana Maharshi
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. — Paul Watzlawick
We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations. — Albert Einstein
A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did. — Konrad Lorenz
Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. — Neville Goddard
God Belief Quotes
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. — Isaac Newton
The voice you believe will determine the future you experience — Steven Furtick
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God. — Ravi Zacharias
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes. — Beth Moore
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. — Max Lucado
A man is not saved because he believes in Christ, he believes in Christ because he is saved. — Loraine Boettner
What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue. — Prince
We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology. — E. O. Wilson
The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself. — Morgan Freeman
Self Delusion Quotes
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. — Albert Einstein
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead
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
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. — Albert Einstein
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness. — Albert Einstein
The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness. — Tara Brach
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. — Daniel DayLewis
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. — Marilyn French
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. — Calvin Coolidge
Belief In God Quotes
Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another. — Ibn Arabi
The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.' — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust. — Kari Jobe
Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead. — Barack Obama
Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation. — Vladimir Putin
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case. — Charles Spurgeon
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. — Thomas Jefferson
Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others. — Hugo Black
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion. — Martin Luther
The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course. ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time. — John Adams
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche. — Terence McKenna
I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me. — Tim McGraw
The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. — William Sanderson
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. — Richard Dawkins
Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are ‘valid,’ let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so. — Richard Dawkins
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. — Raymond Chandler
The fundamental delusion — there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever. — Naval Ravikant
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion. — Farley Mowat
"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others." — Robert Anton Wilson
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. — Thomas Reed
We’re a species that isn’t great at truth. We’re built to believe convenient delusions, not to be accurate. — Tim Urban
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory — Mark Twain
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! — Charles Dickens
A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul. — Augustus Toplady
The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake
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