quotes about Delusion
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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
-- Alan Barth -
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
-- Aleksandar HemonSource : Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.40, Pan Macmillan
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom.
-- Andrew Bacevich -
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
-- Ann Brashares -
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
-- Anna Quindlen -
One man's faith is another man's delusion
-- Anthony StorrSource : Anthony Storr (2015). “Feet Of Clay: The Power and Charisma of Gurus”, p.198, Simon and Schuster
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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 KrugerSource : Song: Weightless, Album: Strip Me, 2010
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It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
-- Bertrand Russell -
To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.
-- Christopher Paolini -
We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.
-- Craig Stone -
Whatever you think is delusion.
-- Dainin KatagiriSource : Dainin Katagiri (1988). “Returning to Silence”, Shambhala Publications
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There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.
-- Dave Hunt -
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
-- Dogen -
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You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
-- Edward Abbey -
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
-- Eric S. Raymond -
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.
-- Felix Dennis -
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Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.
-- Frank Capra -
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him
-- Heinz von FoersterSource : "The Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivis" by Bernhard Poerksen, (p. 3), 2004.
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If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.
-- J. Michael Straczynski -
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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.
-- James H. Austin -
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.
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Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
-- Karl BowmanSource : "The Subtlety of Emotions". Book by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (p. 445), 2001.
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Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.
-- Kim Hee-jinSource : Hee-Jin Kim (2010). “Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen”, p.3, SUNY Press
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I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.
-- Lionel ShriverSource : "Legion of Super-Heroes". Adventure Comics v2, 2009.
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
-- Ludwig Borne -
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The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.
-- Michael Ruse -
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
-- Norm MacDonald -
Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.
-- Peter David -
Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
-- Ramana Maharshi -
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The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.
-- Reb Anderson -
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
-- Richard Dawkins -
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.
-- Richard DiebenkornSource : Richard Diebenkorn, John McEnroe, Jane Livingston, Barnaby Conrad (2003). “Richard Diebenkorn: figurative works on paper”, Chronicle Books
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
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A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
-- Robert Todd Carroll -
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.
-- Robin Wasserman -
Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.
-- Shenhui -
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The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
-- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st BaronetSource : Statement in 1942. "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won". Book by Victor Davis Hanson, 2017.
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We chart delusions through collective agreement.
-- Siri Hustvedt -
This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.
-- Thomas Huxley -
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
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Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
-- Tony KushnerSource : Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.107, Theatre Communications Group
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Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
-- W. H. Auden -
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
-- Walter Wager -
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...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
-- Zoë HellerSource : Zoë Heller (2007). “Notes on a Scandal”, p.161, Penguin UK
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Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.
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The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.
-- Carey MercerSource : Source: pitchfork.com
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When all else fails there's always delusion.
-- Conan O'Brien -
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Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.
-- John KatzenbachSource : John Katzenbach (2002). “The Analyst”
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Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.
-- Marni Jackson -
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.
-- Willis Earl Beal -
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We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...
-- Andrew BacevichSource : "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. August 15, 2008.
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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 GaySource : "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.