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

  Horace

  Errors, Society, Politics

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• If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Self, Faces, Facts

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

  Henry Miller

  Progress, Insane, Enlightenment

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

  Roger Cohen

  Underestimate, Human Nature, Capacity

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• Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

  Thomas Szasz

  Believe, Doe, Belief

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• The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

  Richard Dawkins

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

  Adrienne Rich

  Fake People, Memories, Real

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• 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.

  Charles E. Wilson

  Suffering, Socialism, Communism

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

  Jane Wagner

  Funny, Illusions Of Grandeur, Delusions Of Grandeur

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• The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.

  Hart Crane

  Real, Loss, Past

  Hart Crane (1965). “The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932”

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• I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

  Tim McGraw

  Running, Kids, Artist

  "The Clinton Of Country". Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, content.time.com. September 13, 2004.

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• The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dark, Feelings, May

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• 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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Mother, Method

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

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• I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Believe, Self, Identity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

  James Bovard

  Government, One Day, Noble

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

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• Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

  Vanna Bonta

  Hurt, May, Sometimes

  "Rewards of Passion, Sheer Poetry". Book by Vanna Bonta, 1981.

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• A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Helping, Ass

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

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• The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Self, Worst, Deluded

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• Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

  Kim Hee-jin

  Enlightenment, Enlightening, Deluded

  Hee-Jin Kim (2010). “Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen”, p.3, SUNY Press

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

  Don Marquis

  Liars, Lying, Lakes

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Insanity, Philosopher, Delusional

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• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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  I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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