A Quote by Douglas Coupland

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Canadian - Novelist
Born: December 30, 1961

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

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

Dogen

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

Judith Kelman

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

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Michael Crichton

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

Michael Crichton

When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague rat coming onto a ship, the end is practically preordained.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest.

Robert Mankoff

The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.

Dick Gregory

A form of self-delusion.

Elbert Hubbard

I get a call from my sister. They go, 'We met the funniest, funniest doctor in Newport Beach.' And they introduced me to Dr. Terry Dubrow.

Paul Nassif

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

Jonah Hill

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

Brandon Sanderson

I go out with my mates and after a drink they'll ask, 'How are you a comedian? You're not the funniest among us,' And they're right - I'm not even the funniest in our house.