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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.
The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.
My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.
At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new
day of a most precious delusion.
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.
If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.
There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?
But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.
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.
Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.
Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that?
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.
We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.
The idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion.
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.
I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.
