Delusion Quotes

Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

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...

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor.

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.

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

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

Whatever you think is delusion.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

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

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.

When all else fails there's always delusion.