“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
Tag: delusion
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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.” — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
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“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” — Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
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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.” — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
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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.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“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
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“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” — Edmund Burke, Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)
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“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
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“We live and die and anything else is just delusion.” — Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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