Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. Votes: 4
Guru NanakChronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial. Votes: 3
John BradshawDelusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. Votes: 3
Edmund BurkeThe God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. Votes: 3
Michael RuseAll are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. Votes: 2
Ambrose BierceThere is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man. Votes: 2
Craig StoneSpace enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen. Votes: 2
Neil deGrasse TysonLove is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. Votes: 2
Daniel S. GreenbergYou must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Votes: 0
Gustav MahlerObjectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him Votes: 0
Heinz von FoersterObjectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. Votes: 0
Heinz von FoersterOne who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaDo not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroNondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor... Votes: 0
Thinley NorbuPropounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. Votes: 0
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIt is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion Votes: 0
Calvin CoolidgeA delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsThis requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens Votes: 0
Tina FeyThe more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness. Votes: 0
Emanuel SwedenborgThe human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. Votes: 0
Michael ShermerFaith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsSin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions. Votes: 0
M.F. MoonzajerI keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. Votes: 0
Walter WagerWe would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. Votes: 0
Norm MacDonaldI seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusCheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine. Votes: 0
Barbara EhrenreichI knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated. Votes: 0
Louise Erdrich...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left. Votes: 0
Zoë HellerThe illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinIf history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. Votes: 0
Ronald ReaganFirst get rid of the delusion I am the body, then only will we want real knowledge. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaThere is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God. Votes: 0
Dave HuntThe fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. Votes: 0
Hakuun YasutaniThe possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth. Votes: 0
Nema Al-ArabyI think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early. Votes: 0
Wayne KnightThe best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day Votes: 0
Scott AdamsI never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiI never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. Votes: 0
BukowskiFor what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage. Votes: 0
Joyce Carol OatesWhen the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth. Votes: 0
William Peter BlattyLittle praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. Votes: 0
Edward McKendree BoundsWe also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. Votes: 0
Henri PoincareIn exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. Votes: 0
Aime MartinAt every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion. Votes: 0
Czeslaw MiloszIt is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. Votes: 0
Thomas PaineI like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it. Votes: 4 Richard Dawkins
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. Votes: 3 James Bovard
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed. Votes: 5 Jimmy Carter
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. Votes: 2 Terry Gross