Delusion Quotes - Page 10

• You're living in a delusion, based on your legendary father.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Father, Fighter

  "Chavez Jr. tries to write his own legend" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.

  Bodhidharma

  Life, Hate, Rebirth

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down] was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together-radiant, everlasting.

  Alice Munro

  Wall, Pain, Writing

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• When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

  Dalai Lama

  Hate, Thinking, Politics

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• We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.

  Jan Phillips

  Memories, Regret, Fear

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• Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

  Bodhidharma

  Lying, Reality, Thinking

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Enemy, Overcoming, Realizing

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• Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Heart, Knowing, Matter

  "A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks - review" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• 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.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Taken, Class, Plunder

  Frederic Bastiat (2017). “The Law”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• ...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Dark, Self, Age

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.5, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Objectivity, Done, Insight

  "The Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivis" by Bernhard Poerksen, (p. 3), 2004.

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• Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

  Kodo Sawaki

  Loss, Enlightenment, Gains

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• How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

  Zhuangzi

  Hate, Home, Loving Life

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.47, Columbia University Press

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• At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.

  Confucius

  Heart, Heaven, Desire

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• Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ignorance, Light, Shining

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.650, Manonmani Publishers

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• First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Body, Want

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Goes On, Next

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.

  Pat Buchanan

  Party, Two, Wings

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• If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Mind, Looks

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• All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.

  Terence McKenna

  Hallucinations, Psychedelic, Should

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• Americans live under the delusion that enterprise here is both private and free. It may be nominally private, but it's anything but free. Unfortunately, most people don't know what freedom is. So they are unfazed when they hear that before you can do anything of a commercial nature, you need government permission.

  Sheldon Richman

  Government, People, Needs

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

  Wayne Knight

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Wayne Knight talks about The Exes, Newman, and working in the mud for Jurassic Park". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do.

  Chris Diamantopoulos

  Careers, Comedian, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Sure, I would have loved it, if we'd gotten 2,000 screens, but I never had that delusion. I was very realistic. I think it's a success, in that it turned out funny, I got everyone I wanted to be in it, and it will get seen. The hope is that it gets a little cult following. I think people will be surprised about who's in it and how funny it is. That's my hope.

  Matt Walsh

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Humorous, Book, Thinking

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