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If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.
— J. Michael Straczynski
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
— Simone Weil
When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion
— Anthony Storr
A Zendo is not a peaceful haven but a furnace room for the combustion
of our egotistical delusions. — Eido Shimano Roshi
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
— Steve Martin
He is suffering from delusions of adequacy.
— Walter Kerr
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
— James Bovard
Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
— Tony Kushner
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
— Ambrose Bierce
perhaps happiness is synchronising one's personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions.
— Yuval Noah Harari
Mindfulness can serve as an antidote to living a fragmental life riven with deleterious delusions and illusions.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
— Arthur Smith
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL. D.
— Kurt Vonnegut
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.
— Derrick Jensen
Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.
— Gautama Buddha
A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur.
— Peter Clines
To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed
— Christopher Paolini
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
— Robert A. Heinlein
Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.
— Dalai Lama
We chart delusions through collective agreement.
— Siri Hustvedt
For whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.
— Henri Matisse
Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.
— Hannu Rajaniemi
The last man in the world was irretrievably stuck with his delusions.
— Richard Matheson
It must be because I've got a permanent job for the first time in my life,he thought. That's why I can't help hearing all sorts of things.
— Tarjei Vesaas
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
— Bodhidharma
Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.
— Charlotte Bronte
In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.
— H.P. Lovecraft
I think when you fall in love, like true love, it's love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions.
— J.A. Redmerski
Delusion is the seed of dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There's a great deal of power in pretending.
— Suzanne Palmieri
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
— Laozi
Contrary to the delusions in your head, you're not every woman's fantasy.""I never wanted to be every woman's fantasy. Just yours. — Lauren Layne
My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
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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[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.
— Ludwig Feuerbach
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
— Agnes Repplier
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
— Bodhidharma
If you're going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful?
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Science is the struggle to avoid self-delusions or at least not to appear too delusional to others.
— D.A. Blankinship
We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He had delusions of adequacy.
— Walter Kerr
What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.
— Ayushee Ghoshal
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
— George Henry Lewes
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
— Paul Watzlawick
History is not just the lies of the victors; it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.
— Julian Barnes
Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
But I am a great pretender, sometimes so good at it that I convince myself that what I pretend is what is truly real.
— Kameron Hurley
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.
— Claude Steiner
She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none.
— Crystal Woods
Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.
— Robert Breault
And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?
— Jeanette Winterson
Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
— Vernon Howard
They love their delusions as they love themselves.
— Sigmund Freud
I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
— Randy Jackson
Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.
— John Calvin
In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.
— Rudolf Wanderone
I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.
— Hattie Morahan
Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.
— Jack Weatherford
Delusions are a vital part of my existence.
— Jason Krumbine
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
— Terence McKenna
If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.
— Arthur C. Clarke
It's quite possible that the delusions of today may be the proved scientific facts of tomorrow.
— Agatha Christie
The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur; it's a delusion of insignificance.
— Steve Maraboli
Wow. Another realm, huh? Your zealous delusions continue to impress me. Is this where we fly off to Olympus or Valhalla or Heaven or something?
— Giselle Simlett
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
— Aleksandar Hemon
