Best 280 quotes in «delusion quotes» category

What is the essential difference between banknotes, coins, and chicken shit? None.

When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.

Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve to be dominated and abused. And once men have had their way with them, these whores are to be discarded. Porn glorifies the cruelty and domination of sexual exploitation in the same way popular culture, as Jensen points out, glorifies the domination and cruelty of war. It is the same disease. It is the belief that “because I have the ability to use force and control to make others do as I please, I have the right to use this force and control.” It is the disease of corporate and imperial power. It extinguishes the sacred and the human to worship power, control, force, and pain. It replaces empathy, eros, and compassion with the illusion that we are gods. Porn is the glittering façade, like the casinos and resorts of Las Vegas, like the rest of the fantasy that is America, of a culture seduced by death.

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

Wondering and writing constitute positive madness.

Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings. Example: the Chinese pictogram for ‘integrity’ is a two-part symbol of a man literally standing next to his word. So far, so good. But what does the Late English word ‘honesty’ mean? Or ‘Motherland’? Or ‘progress’? Or ‘democracy’? Or ‘beauty’? But even in our self-deception, we become gods.

Whoever doubt is in state of delusion.

Words of an old soul's heart, Portrayal of the matrix art To break from the illusion Of your continuous delusion No chapter good or bad, Not happy, neither sad. Attachement to desire, The heart sparks inner fire.

Writers, by nature, are going to be slightly more delusional than others because we're dreamers, we imagine the unlikely, that's how we create... Rather than hoping my delusion becomes a reality, I'd prefer to keep on being deluded, to dream bigger and to imagine greater. My greater worry would be becoming less delusional .

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that had a price, just underneath was the pure terror. Midnight forever. If you stopped even for a minute to think, there it was and you could fall into it so easily. Some fell. Some went nuts, some even took their own lives.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

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

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

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.

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

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

Awakening is natural,delusion is not

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

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

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death.

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

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

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.

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.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

Ideation without execution is delusion

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.

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

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

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

I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.

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

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.

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

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

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

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.

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

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

Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.