Delusions Quotes

158 Delusions quotes by 129 unique authors

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper. — Derrick Jensen
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd… — Julian Barnes
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and… — Richard Yates
Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I… — Steven Erikson
Every time I think I’m getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me excruciatingly aware that… — Karen Marie Moning
And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions. — J.A. Redmerski
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the… — Eckhart Tolle
You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why?… — Ryohgo Narita
The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions… — George Muller
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement. — William Golding
What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to… — Baron d'Holbach
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and… — Clarence Darrow
I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be… — George Muller
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle… — Natasha Lyonne
Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and… — Shawn Amos
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that… — Ernest Hello
He had delusions of adequacy. — Walter Kerr
I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it. — Randy Jackson
I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid. — Jimmy Kimmel
While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it… — Sam Harris
With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good… — David LaChapelle
A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous… — Konrad Lorenz
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling… — Julian Barnes
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as… — Anthony Storr

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