Delusions Quotes
158 quotes by 130 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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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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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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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes…
— Joseph Story
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Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which…
— Dalai Lama
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When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls…
— Ernest Hello
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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