Delusion Quotations

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

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.

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.

I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.

It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.

The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.

Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today's top cops on managing reputation - both of their force and, by default, their careers.

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

the powerful lesson from Enron for me is the power of self delusion and how people rationalise and deceive themselves. And I think when Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling say they are innocent now, as they do with their trial approaching in early 2006, they mean it on a certain level. One smart financial observer said to me that he's never met the CEO of a fraudulent company who didn't come to believe in what he'd created.

When it came to the last 10 minutes, I think we controlled it and they seemed to be out of ideas. Then, when we thought we won the game, it's a bit of a delusion to draw it. And, of course, the delusion is even bigger to lose it.

Yes ; I say that delusion has been completely swept to the winds by the conference at Winnipeg.

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

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

There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

One who neither hates the presence of enlightenment, activity, and delusion nor desires for them when they are absent.

Persons of virtuous deeds, whose deed has come to an end, become free from the delusion of dualities and worship Me with firm resolve.

He really wasn't processing reality very well. I came to the conclusion that this looked like a delusion of some kind. He had paranoid schizophrenia.

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine: Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe.

We are not under the delusion this will clear up every single question.

That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

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.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

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

When all else fails there's always delusion.

Those who professed this Art are supposed to have been either impostors or under the delusion created by impostors and mountebanks.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.

All beings in this world are in utter ignorance due to the delusion of dualities born of likes and dislikes, O Arjuna.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

The most dangerous delusion is that a conflict would be either small or quick.

It's a complete illusion, this notion. We create for ourselves this strange delusion that we exchange our lives for someone else's.

IT is urgent that every one should inquire into the true, the pure and the permanent; for there is at present a delusion about values. Even the leaders of people are hugging the false hypothesis that happiness can be had by means of wealth or health, housing or clothing, or the cultivation of skills in handicraft and manufacture.

Do not be under the delusion that God is somewhere and you have to search for Him; God is in you.

Nothing's going to fix it. I think we're creating the delusion that there's a perfect operating system out there. But as long as flood protection is necessary in the state of Florida, there's going to be impacts to those estuaries.

Intel woke up from its frequency delusion and is now going full-bore on dual-core.

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

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

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

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

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

There are many kinds of delusion.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

Nick’s right, you are psychotic. (Talon) The correct term is sociopathic and yes, I am. But at least I have no delusions about myself. (Zarek) Meaning? (Talon) Take your meaning wherever you can find it. (Zarek)

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

Truth is always a delusion.

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

All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer.

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

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

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.

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.

And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

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.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

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.

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.

...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'.

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

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion...

These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-song, their triumphs and defiance, their dismal and prophecies, are all delusion

In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.

The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.