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Delusion Quotes

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

That you propel yourself ahead and experience the multitude of matters is an illusion. That the multitude of matters advance and come to cognizance is enlightenment.
Authors on Delusion Quotes: Scott Adams Dogen Swami Vivekananda Charlotte Bronte Sathya Sai Baba Bodhidharma Ninon de L'Enclos Barbara Kruger Roxane Gay Ludwig Borne Lionel Shriver Craig Stone Frank Capra Robert A. Heinlein Walter Wager Anthony Storr Marni Jackson J. Michael Straczynski Richard Dawkins Albert Einstein Noam Chomsky Carey Mercer Thomas Huxley Meryl Streep Conan O'Brien Margery Wilson Robert Todd Carroll Vernon Howard Arthur D. Hlavaty Kim Hee-jin Felix Dennis Richard Diebenkorn Aleksandar Hemon
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
Tina Fey

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

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

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Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
Ninon de L'Enclos

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Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
Aleksandar Hemon

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

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

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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
Bodhidharma

10.
We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
Chuck Palahniuk

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Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.
Arthur D. Hlavaty

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

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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Edward Abbey

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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...
Andrew Bacevich

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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.
Thomas Jefferson

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

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Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.
Sathya Sai Baba

18.
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.
Michael Ruse

19.
Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.
John Katzenbach

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Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
Tony Kushner

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

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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

23.
Whatever you think is delusion.
Dainin Katagiri

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

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

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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.
Barbara Kruger

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

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When all else fails there's always delusion.
Conan O'Brien

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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.
Roxane Gay

30.
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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Truth is always a delusion.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
Alan Barth

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

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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.
James Levine

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

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

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

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

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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.
Thomas Huxley

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

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Ideation without execution is delusion
Robin Sharma

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Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.
Kim Hee-jin

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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.
Dogen

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Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Karl Bowman

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One man's faith is another man's delusion
Anthony Storr

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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.
James H. Austin

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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.
Dalai Lama

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

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

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