Delusion Quotes

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

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.

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

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

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.

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

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

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

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

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

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

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.

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.

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

I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.

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

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.

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.

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

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

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.