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It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions. — Charles Spurgeon
A form of self-delusion. — Elbert Hubbard
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. — James Bovard
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar,… — Carl Sagan
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an… — Hal Abelson
Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion. — Gautama Buddha
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. — Daniel Greenberg
Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a… — Zhuangzi
All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you… — Gautama Buddha
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying. — Adyashanti
If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of… — Donald O. Clifton
Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind. — Gautama Buddha
If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that… — Richard Heinberg
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion — Calvin Coolidge
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom,… — Henry Grady Weaver
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed… — Steven Pinker
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write… — Jonathan Franzen
The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a… — Stephen Spender
As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is… — Noam Chomsky
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky… — Peter F. Hamilton
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of… — Jacob Bigelow
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a… — Sharon Salzberg
When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth. — William Peter Blatty

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