Best 280 quotes in «delusion quotes» category

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.

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)

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

Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

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.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

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.

Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

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

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

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

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.

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

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.

Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

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

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

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

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

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

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

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

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...

Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.

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

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.

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

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

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

All my life I'd thought of myself as an essentially good person, but all I'd been was comfortable.

There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.

A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal, in a green costume he's a hero who gets a parade and a pension. So that, as a culture, we remain in a state of moral insanity. To point out these contradictions to people in society is to be labeled insane. This is how insane society remains, that anybody who points out logical opposites in the most essential human topic of ethics, is considered to be insane.