You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy! — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they… — Nicholas Rescher Copy Share Image
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man. — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
The idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. — Horace Copy Share Image
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I don't know what people want. I have delusions of grandeur, but I'm not sitting here talking to you and thinking that… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I don't love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don't think any actor does. Most of… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world.… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I'm urging all my millennial peers and the young people coming up behind us to look for signs and symptoms of them… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
“The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Tell everything to your spiritual father, and the Lord will have mercy on you and you will escape delusion. But if you… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Webster's Third New International Dictionary defines delusion as "a false conception and persistent belief unconquerable by reason in something that has… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked,… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50. Think of it as only 1 year older than 59 Go ahead,… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create? — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Go on down to the local palm reader, she'll spit out exactly what you feed her because honey, you already knew your… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
