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Letter "D" » delusion
«If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.»
Author: Harold Abelson
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About:
Computers,
Learning
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Keywords:
array,
arraying,
computer program,
delusion,
dispel,
fiddled,
fiddles,
fiddling,
focus on,
indexes,
indices,
integer,
programming,
real number,
the Index,
worrying
«It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.»
«Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.»
«Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.»
«It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
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Astronomer,
Scientist,
Writer)
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About:
Universe
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Keywords:
delusion,
grasp,
persist,
persist in,
reassure,
reassured,
reassures,
reassuring,
satisfying
«It is one of our perennial problems, whether there is actually a God. From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.»
Author: George Harrison
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About:
God,
Religion
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Keywords:
Big Lie,
Big Picture,
big tree,
branches,
Branches of,
cinematic,
combinations,
cosmic,
countless,
delusion,
figures,
Hindu,
Hindus,
images,
motion,
motion picture,
Motion pictures,
perennial,
planetary,
point of view,
profoundly,
religions,
shade,
Spheres,
The Big Picture,
The Hindu,
The Motion Picture,
tree branch,
variety,
vast
«Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief»
Author: Buddha
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About:
Choice
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Keywords:
affliction,
chooses,
confused,
delusion,
greed,
incensed,
inflame,
inflamed,
inflames,
obsess,
obsessed,
Obsessing
«From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant»
«It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
clear-sighted,
delusion,
judgments,
Old Course,
rebirth,
sighted,
subject to,
The old man,
weariness,
well-being
«If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'.»