Best Delusion Sayings
577 Delusion quotes by 414 unique authors
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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he…
— Louis Aragon
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence…
— Andrew Solomon
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Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.
— Victor LaValle
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a…
— Lahiri Mahasaya
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Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses…
— Marc Maron
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep…
— Richard Dawkins
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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 polite way of…
— Daniel Dennett
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We live in a self-organizing and self-correcting universe. For every problem, there is a potentially miraculous solution. A closed heart deflects the miracle, while an…
— Marianne Williamson
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Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
— Eric S. Raymond
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Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud, too,…
— Gary Valentine
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The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.
— Winston Churchill
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Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic views of our…
— Jaak Panksepp
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We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell…
— Kelly Cutrone
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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion…
— Louis Aragon
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Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless,…
— Boethius
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction,…
— Samuel Johnson
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It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss…
— Hart Crane
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have struggled--along…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
— Eugene Ionesco
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The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary…
— Tom Stoppard
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