Belief Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

— Carey Mercer

“You cannot ask a person who is created to break down fences to be the same who builds them. The one who breaks fences…

— Anonymous

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…

— Sigmund Freud

The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that…

— Stephen Spender

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

— Siri Hustvedt

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

— Richard Whately

There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.

— Claire Messud

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

— Robert Todd Carroll

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

— B. Alan Wallace

“Delusions create the most compelling of beliefs.”

— Amish Tripathi

“Beyond the walls are cruelty and deceit, lies and pain, ageing and death.  As long as we are strong we can resist these things,…

— Casey Hill