Delusion Quotes
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.
All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.
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.
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.
The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.
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.
If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.
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.
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.
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.
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.
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.
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.
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
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.
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.
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.
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.
Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.
'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?'
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.
...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
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.
Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.
People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted.
for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.
I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.
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.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
O how we call each other namesYou call me schizophrenicI call you GodBut we do agree on oneDeluded are we both.
The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.
