Deluding Spirits Quotes & Sayings

We may state the question thus: - Imitation imitates the actions of men, whether voluntary or involuntary, on which, as they imagine, a good or bad result has ensued, and they rejoice or sorrow accordingly. Is there anything more? No, there is nothing else. But — Plato

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The perfection of loneliness is you can do whatever you want by yourself. — M.F. Moonzajer

If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion. — Chuck Palahniuk

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. — Jane Porter

Death is always on its way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life ... we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times ... How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet is all seems limitless. — Paul Bowles

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years. — Mickey Rourke

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. — Rollo May

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards. — Jim Rohn

Moral posturing is part and parcel of temptation. It does not invite us directly to do evil - no, that would be far too blatant. It pretends to show us a better way, where we finally abandon our illusions and throw ourselves into the work of actually making the world a better place. It claims, moreover, to speak for true realism: What's real us what us right there in front of us - power and bread. By comparison, the things of God fade into unreality, into a secondary world that no one really needs. God is the issue: Is he real, reality itself, or isn't he? Is he good or do we have to invent the good ourselves? — Pope Benedict XVI

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle. — Maggie Stiefvater

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people. — Tahmoh Penikett

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be. — Gloria Estefan

Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all. — Darren Boyd