Delusion Quotes

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

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

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

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

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.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

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

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

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