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Tag: delusion

Posted on November 2, 2010January 17, 2019

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.” – Dan Simmons, Hyperion

Posted on January 20, 2010January 17, 2019

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” Nietzsche

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