Delusion Quotes

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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 with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.

That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards (“marcher vers”, Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.