“Science is the struggle to avoid self-delusions or at least not to appear too delusional to others.”
“Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side.”
“Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle...”
“Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.”
“History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated.”
“God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.”