Top 100 Quotes About Delusion
#1. I no longer knew what was real and what wasn't. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.
A.B. Shepherd
#2. One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
Nicholas Rescher
#4. Trust is the delusion of truth with ill fated consequences
Ivan Yelkin
#5. Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.
PZ Myers
#6. Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
Gautama Buddha
#7. All she ever said to me about him was You can only love a person that much once in your life, and I didn't know enough to agree or disagree with her. What a terrible and beautiful delusion, and how sad if it's true.
Catherine Lacey
#8. I've thought it from time to time myself. Stupidly simple. There has to be something to all this. There has to be! So many missing pieces. The more you consider it, the more atheists begin to sound like religious fanatics. But I think it's a delusion. It is all process and nothing more.
Anne Rice
#9. Mostly I couldn't bear ... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.
Gail Caldwell
#10. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#11. It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.
Lady Gaga
#12. 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.
William Borah
#13. I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my child through an atmosphere which illuminates, magnifies, and at the same time refines the object to a degree that amounts to a delusion ...
Sara Coleridge
#14. In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on.
Brian Evenson
#15. Exile, like memory, may be a place of hope and delusion. But there are rules of light there and principles of darkness ... The expatriate is in search of a country, the exile in search of a self. - Eavan Boland, OBJECT LESSONS
Kathleen Norris
#17. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.
Elie Wiesel
#18. 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.
Sigmund Freud
#19. We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
Kevin Costner
#20. It's one fucking illusion in this fucking delusion... you don't want to be in my dream, do ya?
Deyth Banger
#21. Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him
Heinz Von Foerster
#22. 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.
Michael Beckwith
#23. I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.
Charlotte Bronte
#24. We believe that beautiful people must have equally beautiful personalities. But what is amazing is how complete is this delusion!
Avijeet Das
#25. 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.
David Hume
#26. Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
Tina Fey
#27. Bronn himself, who'd only smiled that insolent dark smile of his and afterward said, "They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it."
Tyrion had no such delusion.
George R R Martin
#28. The problem is that faith based upon twisted information is nothing more than delusion - and delusion leads to division. It divided humanity, taking us into endless wars - separating us by race, religion, and politics.
R. Brown
#29. The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.
Rupert Sheldrake
#30. A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
#31. Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It's a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.
J.A. Redmerski
#32. Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.
Lenny Abrahamson
#33. Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you're not actually thinking about any of that stuff, because Buddhism is fundamentally about something that requires no thought.
Karen Maezen Miller
#34. 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.
George Osborne
#35. 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.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#36. 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.
Thomas Paine
#37. The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting
Charlotte Shane
#38. Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.
Kodo Sawaki
#39. A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.
Walter Benjamin
#40. 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.
Jim Babka
#41. [T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.
Henry Blodget
#42. 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.
Roxane Gay
#43. When we are lost in delusion, it's hard to see even the most obvious truths.
Jack Kornfield
#44. 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.
Hal Abelson
#46. The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.
Deepak Chopra
#47. Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also call "dismantling delusion." I think that after I dismantle my female body, I can finally dismantle established lyric poems.
Kim Hyesoon
#48. They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.
Terry Pratchett
#49. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. A chord that becomes a melodious delusion,
In polar discrepancy from blue to yellow painted,
In yellow I existed, with digoxin's deadly illusion,
Like Van Gogh's stars in a bright night untainted.
Selina A. Mahmood
#51. The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.
Swami Vivekananda
#52. One deceives oneself and unconsciously believes that real true passion is stirring one's soul; one unconsciously believes that there is something living, tangible in one's immaterial dreams! And is it delusion?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#53. An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.
Petra Kelly
#54. 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.
Christopher Lasch
#55. 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.
Michael Ruse
#56. One of the most powerful aspects of delusion, or ignorance, is the belief that what we do does not really matter.
Sharon Salzberg
#57. All of them began to laugh spontaneously because they knew it was still last night while the people in the streets had the delusion that it was bright hot morning.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#58. 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.
Frederic Bastiat
#59. But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.
Byron Katie
#60. Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Guru Nanak
#61. 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.
Barbara Kruger
#62. We labor under the great delusion that we are in control.
Silly humans.
Toni Sorenson
#63. The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.
Michiko Kakutani
#64. That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.
Robert Musil
#65. You might be a great judge of character, but you need to be a great judge of evidence to avoid delusion.
David McRaney
#66. 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 ...
H.L. Mencken
#67. If there is something here that is not in the Vedas, that is your delusion. It does not exist.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. I concluded, that it was not a dream or a delusion or a misplaced memory or a fancy or any other falsity, but a solid, true thing witnessed while in a weakened highly agitated state.
Yann Martel
#69. 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 ...
Sigmund Freud
#70. When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?
Eckhart Tolle
#71. Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#72. Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.
Sathya Sai Baba
#73. I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
Charles Bukowski
#74. 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.
Helen Van Slyke
#75. 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.
Gregory Heisler
#76. Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you ... hence the delusion necessary to push on.
Marc Maron
#77. We keep electing council members for appearance sake, it doesn't mean anything, and it is just a show for the people, so that they may sleep well at night with their delusion of peace.
S.R. Gibbs
#78. ( ... ) there was actually nothing, and /you/ were nothing, and it was all a delusion. And that you were better than everyone else because you saw that it was a delusion, and yet you were worse because you couldn't function.
David Foster Wallace
#79. It would be a great advantage to a young man if his early training could eradicate the idea that the world has a great deal to offer him. But the usual result of education is to strenghten this delusion; and our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than from fact.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#80. Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without pain is an addiction and the fantasy of perpetual happiness is like the "delusion of fusion."
Carl Whitaker
#81. Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
Bodhidharma
#82. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.
Steven Erikson
#83. Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.
Neville Goddard
#84. People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.
Lionel Suggs
#85. In fact, when you're mindful, you actually feel irritation more keenly. However, once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw you, it's easier to stop getting carried away.
Dan Harris
#86. We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium
John Ralston Saul
#87. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#88. If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I think the truth , which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence and self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.
Marcus Aurelius
#89. 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.
Rabih Alameddine
#91. The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that
helps him get through the day
Scott Adams
#92. Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
Victor Hugo
#93. It was as if his apostasy from the faith of his fathers, filling him with the fiery zeal of the convert, and particularly of the convert to heresy, had blinded him to every other element in the gigantic self-delusion of civilized man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#94. Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
Philip Yancey
#96. In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.
Frederick Lenz
#97. It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick).
F Scott Fitzgerald
#98. In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.
Douglas A. Blackmon
#99. Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy; their entire delusion lies within the fact that they believe they aren't deluded.
Nenia Campbell
#100. First get rid of the delusion I am the body, then only will we want real knowledge.
Swami Vivekananda
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