Delusion Quotes

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…

— 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…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Rupert Sheldrake

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

— Tom Robbins

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— 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…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Claude Steiner

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

— Glenn Reynolds

No greater invention was ever devised for creating the delusion of productivity than the personal computer, except for religion.

— Rock Cowles

I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live…

— Ming-Dao Deng

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

— Gautama Buddha

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

— B. Alan Wallace

As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into…

— Noam Chomsky

I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not…

— Charlotte Bronte

Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve the problem…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think…

— George Osborne

Ingredients to a great relationship: Love, Respect, Trust, and Communication. If one is missing, then you're lying to yourself about how good…

— Nishan Panwar

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good…

— David Hume

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

— Moncure D. Conway

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change…

— H. L. Mencken