“The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“Love is not an obsession or a delusion. Love exists in longing and appreciation.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Hollywood is built on delusion. Everyone thinks they're more important than they are. Nothing is real. — Adore Delano Copy Share Image
I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“You can keep your passive hope and blind faith, and I’ll take the despair. Because at least the despair is real. I’d… — Evan Grinde Copy Share Image
You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another,… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Class consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The promise of learning is a delusion… Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“I wasn't born a victim of life nor its slave. I just became a victim of circumstances at the mercy of the… — Hans Lindor Copy Share Image
The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of… — Steven Sample Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being humble and being gullible. Those who cant distinguish live a sad life of arrogant ignorance and blind… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“the habit of denying any unskillful elements in one’s actions and intentions is delusion in its most pernicious and tenacious form.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own… — Ryokan Copy Share Image
Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The world as it appears to us now is, as I said, largely a reflection of the egoic mind. Fear being an… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
A delusion of grandeur is when a man loses touch with reality, what do you call it when a nation loses touch… — Nicholas Zounis Copy Share Image
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion. — Percy L. Greaves, Jr Copy Share Image
