Best 280 quotes in «delusion quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie.

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

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

A million poems, all written in the loss and seeking of love that deludes us.

A mind with absolutely no insight into itself, a mind filled with purpose and delusion.

And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

And in that moment he realised that even though the dreams they’d seen together, hoped for and believed in had come true, it wasn’t enough. It was far from reality which was lonesome and woeful. And conceived that love had no lastingness, it was brief and momentary. It wasn’t the cherishable sensation spoken of in movies and written in books, rather a delusion inclined on ruining the very spirit, giving way to mournfulness and disappointment.

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

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

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.

A man swallowed a bird every day but still couldn't fly.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself.

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings can go. He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning.

Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .

And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?

And this is the mystery that I declare unto thee: that from the Crown itself spring the three great delusions; Aleph is madness, and Beth is falsehood, and Gimel is glamour. —The Cry of the 3rd Aethyr Which Is Called ZON

Artists are not in delusion, they only recreate the hidden side

Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the fundamentalist Australopithecines are particularly harmful. These beliefs are what we call "delusions". Except unlike in a neuropsychological ailment, the delusion of the fundamentalists is not just harmful for the individuals suffering from it, but more importantly it is the greatest threat to peace, progress and wellbeing of the entire human species.

Beware of ‘god men’ and ‘god women’. Even people who have not been depressed for a day in their lives get sucked into the seductive delusion of spirituality. If you must seek, seek by yourself, sitting in an armchair at your desk after office hours. For while Buddha saw the light, we do not know how many of his disciples did. If you must get guidance from a living guru, take it and move on. Gurus are no more than the teachers we had at school. You may find them when you need to learn, but you have to outgrow them in order to grow.

At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice does not pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer.

But at that moment all I could see was the wolf in the white van, so alive, so strong. Hidden from view, unnoticed, concealed. And I thought, maybe he's real, this wolf, and he's really out there in a white van somewhere, riding around. Maybe he's in the far back, pacing back and forth, circling, the pads of his huge paws raw and cracking, his thick, sharp claws dully clicking against the raised rusty steel track ridges on the floor. Maybe he's sound asleep, or maybe he's just pretending. And then the van stops somewhere, maybe, and somebody gets out and walks around the side to the back and grabs hold of the handle and flings the doors open wide. Maybe whoever's kept him wears a mechanic's jumpsuit and some sunglasses, and he hasn't fed the great wolf for weeks, cruising the streets of the city at night, and the wolf's crazy with hunger now; he can't even think. Maybe he's not locked up in the back at all: he could be riding in the passenger seat, like a dog, just sitting and staring out the open window, looking around, checking everybody out. Maybe he's over in the other seat behind the steering wheel. Maybe he's driving.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, 'Some animals are more equal than others'—that he embedded in our language and in our minds. In Orwell's own mind there was an inextricable connection between language and truth, a conviction that by using plain and unambiguous words one could forbid oneself the comfort of certain falsehoods and delusions. Every time you hear a piece of psychobabble or propaganda—'people's princess,' say, or 'collateral damage,' or 'peace initiative'—it is good to have a well-thumbed collection of his essays nearby. His main enemy in discourse was euphemism, just as his main enemy in practice was the abuse of power, and (more important) the slavish willingness of people to submit to it.

Christians are called to set people free from the delusion of the world and from the devil’s deceit

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue; which is of itself a strong presumption that in the infancy of letters, learning and science, or in the world's non-age, those who confided in miracles, as a proof of the divine mission of the first promulgators of revelation, were imposed upon by fictitious appearances instead of miracles.

Deceit is the deepest delusion.

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