The human capacity for self-delusion is limitless

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

— Ludwig Borne

If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment…

— Jim Rohn

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.

— Rupert Sheldrake

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins

“we shouldn’t surrender our real world perception to a false reality too much or we may suffer the inevitable consequences of deluded thinking. Technology…

— M.P. Neary

Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues…

— Jeremy Shearmur

It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work…

— Catherine Booth

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes…

— Sigmund Freud

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

— Sean Parker

I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Someone who has the delusion Glass, is made of, does not literally believe herself to be made of glass but rather feels fragile and…

— Scarlett Thomas

Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

— Claude Steiner

Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate from the…

— Anohni

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point,…

— Glenn Reynolds