Best 280 quotes in «delusion quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

Awakening is natural,delusion is not

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.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

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

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Ideation without execution is delusion

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

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

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 took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

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

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

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

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

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)

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

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.

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

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

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