A Quote by Derek Jarman

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Derek Jarman

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Ambition Delusion Folly Illusion Preserve Pursuit

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Derek Jarman
British - Director
January 31, 1942 - February 19, 1994

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Parker Palmer

In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.

Charles Mackay

Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.

Robert J. Shiller

Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Samuel Eliot Morison

As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens up to is merely a more encompassing form of finitude (another captivating illusion or delusion).

Kenny Smith

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

Albert Einstein

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

Bertrand Russell

Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

Jay Samit

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Nicolas Chamfort

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Ronald Reagan

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Ronald Reagan

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Henry George

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

Frederick Lenz

I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.