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Quote on a picture of the Tour Magne in Nîmes, France.

“Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.” — John Terraine, The Smoke and the Fire

Author YahooeyPosted on February 21, 2022February 20, 2022Categories QuotationsTags delusion, John TerraineLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Author YahooeyPosted on August 25, 2020August 21, 2020Categories QuotationsTags Carl Sagan, delusion, reality, reassurance, satisfaction, The Demon-Haunted World, universe1 Comment on Quote of the Day

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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” — Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Author YahooeyPosted on July 25, 2019July 20, 2019Categories QuotationsTags A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, comfort, delusion, Edward Abbey, truthLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" — that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysms.

“It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that ‘it can’t happen here’ — that one’s own time and place is beyond cataclysms.” — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

Author YahooeyPosted on September 24, 2018September 13, 2018Categories QuotationsTags cataclysms, delusion, John Wyndham, The Day of the TriffidsLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.

“A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College

Author YahooeyPosted on February 21, 2018February 12, 2018Categories QuotationsTags David Foster Wallace, delusionLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.” — William Inge, The End of an Age: and other essays

Author YahooeyPosted on June 3, 2017May 28, 2017Categories QuotationsTags ancestry, delusion, hatred, nation, neighbours, society, William IngeLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” — Edmund Burke, Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)

Author YahooeyPosted on February 14, 2017February 1, 2017Categories QuotationsTags delusion, Edmund Burke, freedom, liberty2 Comments on Quote of the Day

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Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

“Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.” — Richard Diebenkorn, Notes to Myself on Beginning a Painting

Author YahooeyPosted on September 19, 2016October 26, 2019Categories QuotationsTags certainty, delusion, Richard Diebenkorn, uncertaintyLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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We live and die and anything else is just delusion.

“We live and die and anything else is just delusion.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Author YahooeyPosted on April 11, 2013July 6, 2018Categories QuotationsTags Choke, Chuck Palahniuk, death, delusion, illusion, lifeLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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