Delusion Quotes
Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.
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.
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.
An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.
The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.
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.
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.
There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
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.
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.
Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.
The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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.
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.
Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.
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.
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.
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
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
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.
