Top 274 Delusions Quotes & Sayings

It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.

No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

We should realize that our deadliest enemies are anger and other delusions. Since these delusions are deeply ingrained mental habits, working to overcome them is not always easy.

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.

Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, You re welcome to your delusions, but don't say that they're supported by science.

I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I've got a pretty cold honest eye.

Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.

All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

I'm not living under false delusions myself.

He had delusions of adequacy.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

I might have some delusions of grandeur.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

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

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.

History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Every time I think I’m getting wiser, more in control of my actions, I go slamming into a situation that makes me excruciatingly aware that all I’ve succeeded in doing is swapping one set of delusions for a more elaborate, attractive set of delusions

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

I had delusions of being a 'serious actor,' and I wanted to pursue those delusions.

If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks the god Jehovah will bail him out serve in public office is like letting a man who believes in Santa Claus run a Toys 'R Us. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.