Delusion Quotes

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...

Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.

It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

Whatever you think is delusion.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

Truth is always a delusion.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts,
rarely get as far.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

Ideation without execution is delusion

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

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.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

One man's faith is another man's delusion