| "delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself." »Jane Wagner |
| "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce |
| "No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." »Christian Nestell Bovee |
| "A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors." »William Ralph Inge |
| "The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them." »Jean Cocteau |
| "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." »Thomas B. Reed |
| "Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority." »Marion Garretty |
| "A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart." »Pietro Aretino |
| "Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without." »John Stuart Mill |
| "If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life." »Albert Camus |
| "Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart." »William Wordsworth |
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