Best Delusion Lines
577 Delusion quotes by 414 unique authors
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Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument…
— Francis Collins
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When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
— Vernon Howard
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I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure…
— Alexander Alekhine
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I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the…
— Scott Lynch
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God…
— Farley Mowat
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It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.
— Moncure D. Conway
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Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated…
— Gautama Buddha
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Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.
— Unknown Author
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Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
— Laozi
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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
— Alan Barth
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Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is…
— Paul David Tripp
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The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.
— Rick Mercer
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Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the…
— Anthony Storr
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From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the…
— Dalai Lama
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The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and…
— Spider Robinson
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It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in…
— Catherine Booth
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That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
— Dogen
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and…
— James Russell Lowell
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When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive humility; (2) Give…
— Choa Kok Sui
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Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.
— Thomas Szasz
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If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I…
— Robert Walpole
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Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.
— Robert Todd Carroll
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Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion…
— Steve Albini
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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it…
— Sigmund Freud
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