Quotes and Sayings About Delusion
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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
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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.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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.
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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.
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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.
-- James Levine -
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