Top 90 Delusion Quotes

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they’re not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people’s lives than just truth. I can’t stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.

All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.

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

The great thing about a culture of givers is that’s not a delusion – it’s reality.

We shot ‘Delusion’ in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings. So I only ate oysters and drank coffee because I didn’t want to turn into a mutant.

I think most people’s careers in theater are based on delusion. It’s just that mine started early.

The idea that we’re going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion.

There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.

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

We’re under some gross misconception that we’re a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we’ll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It’s delusion.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.

A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they’re super macho.

It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

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.

In a way, and I don’t like to use this word, but delusion can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing, but when you genuinely believe in something, if you’re putting in the effort to progress, you’re going to progress more than someone who doesn’t think they can do it.

Either Trump only talks to those who play up to his delusion, or he simply doesn’t listen to those who might burst his bubble. Either way, that is a cause for worry.

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

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

I’m busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn’t appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That’s fine with me.

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

If I don’t measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

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

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

I like to think ‘The God Delusion’ is a humorous book. I think, actually, it’s full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it’s just that very often they haven’t read it.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

The idea that we’re going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion.

You cannot reason with delusion.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you’re doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that’s why people say it’s so hard. But that doesn’t make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.

We’re under some gross misconception that we’re a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we’ll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It’s delusion.

Delusion and denial does not equal an apology.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.