Delusion Quotes

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

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

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.

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

When all else fails there's always delusion.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

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.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

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

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

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

Awakening is natural,delusion is not

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

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

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.

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

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

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

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.

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

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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

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

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

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.

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

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

A form of self-delusion.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Ideation without execution is delusion

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

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

History is the lies of the victors.

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

One man's faith is another man's delusion

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

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