Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
“I reserve my most elaborate delusions and disappointments for myself.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions. — Claude Steiner Copy Share Image
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.” — Shepherd Hoodwin Copy Share Image
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
One of the greatest political delusions of our age was the idea that holding a referendum on our E.U. membership would settle… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“Even if I never get out of Clover, even if I never get into Northwestern or write for the New Yorker, even… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“If you're completely off your rocker and have delusions of grandeur in which your personal existence is of special significance to the… — Edward M. Wolfe Copy Share Image
It is not unusual for the eye or ear to play tricks with one, but when such illusions and delusions are taken… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
“James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, “Delusion provides a certain,… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“God told us to love everyone. However, when you don’t like someone then you need to walk away and focus not on… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Psychologists have finally proven that the entire justice system’s deep motives and its idea as a whole, which have existed for thousands… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
“This is the problem with having a barrier between you and everyone else—you see it, but they don’t. They talk to you,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too… — Alyssa Reyans Copy Share Image
“Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by God.… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
