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Delusion Quotes by Anonymous

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One quote says man's chief delusion is believing causes exist outside his own consciousness. Other lines point out that we often hide from harsh truths about birth, love, and death, preferring comfortable lies. The collection also warns that ignoring responsibility lets us pretend we do no harm when we stay silent.

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Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

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Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

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Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

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The magic of true love is the ignorance that it will last forever.

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Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

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“he clung, as to his one salvation, to his delusion of salvation.”

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Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

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Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

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The day that we would be together would be the best day of my existence. but I'm living each day as my…

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The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as…

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“When one person sees or hears something that isn’t there, it’s called a delusion. When a small group of people have the…

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God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.

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Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when…

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I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging…

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“the habit of denying any unskillful elements in one’s actions and intentions is delusion in its most pernicious and tenacious form.”

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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning…

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Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the…

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If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether…

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You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And…

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They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose…

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I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no…

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We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if…

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I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this…

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Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they…

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“Class consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real.…

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De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at…

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Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy.…

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The fool who knows he is a fool is for that very reason wise. The fool who thinks himself wise is the…

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Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies.

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Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them…

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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic…

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“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and…

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Most of our fears are much bigger in our minds than they are in reality. We'll see this for ourselves as soon…

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The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would…

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The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open…

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We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been…

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Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can…

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