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• Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Stupid, Thinking, Doe

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• That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Self, Kind, Self Delusion

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.526, Macmillan

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• The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic delusions, such as "My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false," or Nietzsche's famous statmeent "God is dead.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Talking, Years

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• The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day

  Scott Adams

  Helping, Humans, Can Do

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Memories, Powerful, Men

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• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Running, Religious, Lying

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• We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

  Henri Poincare

  Truth, Often Is, Wonder

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• Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.

  Susan Mitchell

  Yoga, Greatest Fear, Personality

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• Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

  Tony Kushner

  Ecology, Delicate

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.107, Theatre Communications Group

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• NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Mind, Generations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity.
  It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.

  James Altucher

  Grateful, Creativity, Compassion

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

  Chris Pratt

  Thinking, Training, Navy

  "Dumb Luck". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. April 26, 2012.

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• One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Long, Events, Should

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.276, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.

  Lynn Margulis

  Moving, Responsibility, Self

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• I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Hero, Black And White, Epic

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• ...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Breathing, Heaven, Ego

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Danger, Cubs, Holmes

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.75

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• I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

  John Hawkes

  Men, Film, Grapes

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• I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

  Terry Gross

  Memories, Self, Knowing

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• DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Faith, Daughter

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism - free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Safety

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• But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Government, People

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• Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

  Steve Martin

  Inspiration, Years, Moments

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• One man's faith is another man's delusion

  Anthony Storr

  Men, Another Man, One Man

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Feet Of Clay: The Power and Charisma of Gurus”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah" said Dumbledore gently, "Yes I thought we might hit that little snag!" "Snag?" said Fudge, his voice still vibrating with joy. "I see no snag, Dumbledore!" "Well," said Dumbledore apologetically, "I'm afraid I do." "Oh, really?" "Well it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to -- come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course -- but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Voice, Joy

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