Accepted Quote by Robert Todd Carroll

“Delusions create the most compelling of beliefs.”

— Amish Tripathi

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

— Bodhidharma

There are many kinds of delusion.

— Michael Ende

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just…

— Anthony Storr

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

— Brent Weeks

“Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the fundamentalist Australopithecines…

— Abhijit Naskar

No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children

— Manu Joseph

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

— Richard Whately

“The imagination, as a subset of the lesser “irrational,” has been rejected and devalued by our culture to the point that we acknowledge its…

— Sandra Dennis

“Delusion is denial of reality.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't…

— Albert Ellis