Delusion Quotes
577 quotes by 427 authors
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
— Ambrose Bierce
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in…
— Jack Black
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
— Ludwig Borne
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
— Edmund Burke
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation…
— Jimmy Carter
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Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
— Kim Cattrall
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Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and…
— Alan Barth
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear…
— Bertrand Russell
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
— Philip Yancey
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all…
— George Eliot
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Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one…
— Douglas Everett
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great…
— Louis Kronenberger
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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not…
— Samuel Johnson
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The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his…
— Malcolm X
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