Delusions Quotes
158 Delusions quotes by 129 unique authors
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A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.
— Derrick Jensen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He had delusions of adequacy.
— Walter Kerr
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
— Randy Jackson
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I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.
— Jimmy Kimmel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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