Quotes about Delusion

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Votes: 6

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. Votes: 5

Truth is always a delusion. Votes: 4

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Votes: 4

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Votes: 4

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. Votes: 4

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Votes: 4

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation. Votes: 4

Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me. Votes: 4

We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings. So I only ate oysters and drank coffee because I didn't want to turn into a mutant. Votes: 4

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. Votes: 3

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil. Votes: 3

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial. Votes: 3

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it. Votes: 3

Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly. Votes: 3

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. Votes: 3

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. Votes: 3

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens. Votes: 3

President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation. Votes: 3

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. Votes: 3

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.. Votes: 3

The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. Votes: 3

Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50. Think of it as only 1 year older than 59 Go ahead, as it's your birthday Delusion, today, is just fine Votes: 3

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines. Votes: 3

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil. Votes: 3

Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing. Votes: 3

I 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: 3

Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer. Votes: 3

When all else fails there's always delusion. Votes: 2

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance. Votes: 2

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Votes: 2

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Votes: 2

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. Votes: 2

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. Votes: 2

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man. Votes: 2

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen. Votes: 2

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. Votes: 2

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. Votes: 2

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities Votes: 2

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. Votes: 2

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. Votes: 2

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius. Votes: 2

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions. Votes: 2

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Votes: 2

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion. Votes: 2

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. Votes: 2

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. Votes: 2

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. Votes: 2

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. Votes: 2

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. Votes: 2

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion. Votes: 2

The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted. Votes: 2

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion. Votes: 2

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. Votes: 2

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Votes: 2

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Votes: 2

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion. Votes: 2

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. Votes: 2

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself. Votes: 2

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: 2

Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying because the title implies that if you don't believe in what I believe then you are 'deluded.' That, I think, is a dangerous concept and one that is unlikely to win hearts and minds. Votes: 2

He had delusions of adequacy Votes: 1

Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms Votes: 1

He has lulled himself into a false sense of competence Votes: 1

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation Votes: 1

A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did Votes: 1

A form of self-delusion. Votes: 0

Ideation without execution is delusion Votes: 0

Whatever you think is delusion. Votes: 0

Vision without execution is delusion. Votes: 0

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia. Votes: 0

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings. Votes: 0

There are many kinds of delusion. Votes: 0

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment. Votes: 0

Awakening is natural,delusion is not Votes: 0

One man's faith is another man's delusion Votes: 0

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion. Votes: 0

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion. Votes: 0

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless. Votes: 0

Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality. Votes: 0

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Votes: 0

Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur. Votes: 0

All life is a delusion of the senses. Votes: 0

Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized. Votes: 0

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is. Votes: 0

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion. Votes: 0

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality. Votes: 0

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth Votes: 0

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth. Votes: 0

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion. Votes: 0

You're living in a delusion based on your legendary father. Votes: 0

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here. Votes: 0

Trust is the delusion of truth with ill fated consequences Votes: 0

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. Votes: 0

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Votes: 0

Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession. Votes: 0

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief. Votes: 0

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. Votes: 0

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion. Votes: 0

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion. Votes: 0

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Votes: 0

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes Votes: 0

The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion. Votes: 0

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. Votes: 0

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. Votes: 0

Artists are not in delusion, they only recreate the hidden side Votes: 0

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. Votes: 0

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results Votes: 0

I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts. Votes: 0

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. Votes: 0

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion. Votes: 0

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. Votes: 0

The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh. Votes: 0

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion. Votes: 0

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him Votes: 0

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature. Votes: 0

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me? Votes: 0

There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion. Votes: 0

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. Votes: 0

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. Votes: 0

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Votes: 0

One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree. Votes: 0

Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor... Votes: 0

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized. Votes: 0

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often. Votes: 0

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. Votes: 0

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens Votes: 0

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world. Votes: 0

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness. Votes: 0

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. Votes: 0

A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho. Votes: 0

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one. Votes: 0

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. Votes: 0

Getting rid of a truth makes us wiser than getting hold of a delusion Votes: 0

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. Votes: 0

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. Votes: 0

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. Votes: 0

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion Votes: 0

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. Votes: 0

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated. Votes: 0

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. Votes: 0

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. Votes: 0

Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions. Votes: 0

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine. Votes: 0

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion. Votes: 0

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. Votes: 0

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. Votes: 0

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. Votes: 0

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion. Votes: 0

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. Votes: 0

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. Votes: 0

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. Votes: 0

...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left. Votes: 0

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion. Votes: 0

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. Votes: 0

First get rid of the delusion I am the body, then only will we want real knowledge. Votes: 0

There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God. Votes: 0

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic. Votes: 0

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. Votes: 0

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed. Votes: 0

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings. Votes: 0

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. Votes: 0

The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth. Votes: 0

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early. Votes: 0

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. Votes: 0

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day Votes: 0

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage. Votes: 0

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. Votes: 0

All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion. Votes: 0

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. Votes: 0

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion. Votes: 0

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. Votes: 0

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth. Votes: 0

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. Votes: 0

Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It's a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking. Votes: 0

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. Votes: 0

There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind. Votes: 0

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade. Votes: 0

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history. Votes: 0

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry Votes: 0

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support. Votes: 0

When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free. Votes: 0

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions. Votes: 0

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. Votes: 0

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. Votes: 0

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion. Votes: 0

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion. Votes: 0

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality. Votes: 0

From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance). Votes: 0

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. Votes: 0

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there. Votes: 0

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change. Votes: 0

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over. Votes: 0

Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion. Votes: 0

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion. Votes: 0

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect. Votes: 0

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. Votes: 0

Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place. Votes: 0

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal. Votes: 0

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation. Votes: 0

God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality. Votes: 0

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss. Votes: 0

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe. Votes: 0

The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals. Votes: 0

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth. Votes: 0

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation. Votes: 0

My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living. Votes: 0

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. Votes: 0

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die! Votes: 0

There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else. Votes: 0

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it. Votes: 0

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion. Votes: 0

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery. Votes: 0

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973) Votes: 0

It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees. Votes: 0

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. Votes: 0

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create? Votes: 0

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism. Votes: 0

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. Votes: 0

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else! Votes: 0

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?Look for delusion and truth in thebottom of your own heart. Votes: 0

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Votes: 0

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion. Votes: 0

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. Votes: 0

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve. Votes: 0

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. Votes: 0

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do Votes: 0

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening Votes: 0

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart. Votes: 0

Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing. Votes: 0

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion. Votes: 0

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time. Votes: 0

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion. Votes: 0

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world. Votes: 0

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. Votes: 0

In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world. Votes: 0

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light. Votes: 0

The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count. Votes: 0

Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind. Votes: 0

Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind's delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and fitting in. Votes: 0

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance. Votes: 0

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment. Votes: 0

Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going. Votes: 0

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness. Votes: 0

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality. Votes: 0

Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional. Votes: 0

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game. Votes: 0

Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net. Votes: 0

Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne Votes: 0

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. Votes: 0

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar. Votes: 0

Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion. Votes: 0

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength. Votes: 0

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart. Votes: 0

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual Votes: 0

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth? Votes: 0

'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?' Votes: 0

I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion. Votes: 0

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time. Votes: 0

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion. Votes: 0

This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light. Votes: 0

We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion. Votes: 0

No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you. Votes: 0

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes." Votes: 0

That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment. Votes: 0

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Votes: 0

Believe what you see with your eyes; trust what you hear with your ears; know what you feel with your flesh. The rest is dream and delusion. Votes: 0

Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion. Votes: 0

Believe what you see with your eyes, trust what you hear with your ears; know what you feel with your flesh. The rest is dream and delusion. Votes: 0

Enter into the plane of mental development. Start to increase your personal power level. Your life will become quite wonderful and very happy. You move beyond delusion. Votes: 0

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such... Votes: 0

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion. Votes: 0

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy. Votes: 0

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write. Votes: 0

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind. Votes: 0

The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion. Votes: 0

I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are. Votes: 0

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires. Votes: 0

man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future. Votes: 0

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion. Votes: 0

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world. Votes: 0

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin. Votes: 0

The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion. Votes: 0

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater. Votes: 0

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money. Votes: 0

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion. Votes: 0

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion. Votes: 0

Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga. Votes: 0

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion. Votes: 0

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes. Votes: 0

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system. Votes: 0

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered. Votes: 0

What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment? Votes: 0

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal. Votes: 0

My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it. Votes: 0

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell. Votes: 0

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now. Votes: 0

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy Votes: 0

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where. Votes: 0

If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves. Votes: 0

All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion. Votes: 0

Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered. Votes: 0

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion. Votes: 0

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it. Votes: 0

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath. Votes: 0

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion. Votes: 0

Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers. Votes: 0

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not. Votes: 0

The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion. Votes: 0

Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation. Votes: 0

The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties. Votes: 0

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion. Votes: 0

Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death. Votes: 0

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion. Votes: 0

Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else. Votes: 0

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education. Votes: 0

If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults? Votes: 0

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. Votes: 0

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked... Votes: 0

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something. Votes: 0

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion. Votes: 0

A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion. Votes: 0

Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion. Votes: 0

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art. Votes: 0

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. Votes: 0

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich. Votes: 0

Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last. Votes: 0

And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it. Votes: 0

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558 Votes: 0

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows. Votes: 0

It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes. Votes: 0

As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin. Votes: 0

Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion... Votes: 0

The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records. Votes: 0

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion. Votes: 0

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes. Votes: 0

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion. Votes: 0

If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own Votes: 0

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. Votes: 0

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. Votes: 0

Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection. Votes: 0