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Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon
Bosniak - Writer
Born: September 9, 1964

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

Thomas Szasz

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

Brian Koppelman

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

Michael Shermer

Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.

Jeffrey Kluger

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

Winston Churchill

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Richard Dawkins

The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.

Reb Anderson

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

Winona Ryder

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Rupert Sheldrake

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

Anthony Storr

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

Felix Dennis

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

Vernon Howard

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

Russ Potts

The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.

Swami Vivekananda

Speaking of Self-realizatio n is a delusion. It is only because people have been under the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and the unreal the Real that they have to be weaned out of it by the other delusion called Self-realizatio n; because actually the Self always is the Self and there is no such thing as realizing it.

Ramana Maharshi

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