Deluded Quotes - Page 5

• A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Giving, Watches

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.450, Oxford University Press

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• Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well glory in their illicit sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more real power than their masters: but virtue is sacrificed to temporary gratifications, and the respectability of life to the triumph of an hour.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Real, Men, May

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.80

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• The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Reality, Thinking, Ignorant

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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, Delusion

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

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• When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

  E. J. Dionne

  Voters, Fool, Republican

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• People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

  Bodhidharma

  People, World, Longing

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan

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• "And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Teaching, Aunt

  Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield”, p.395, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Romance, Literature, Innocence

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• Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,--he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives....
  Wise--deluded man!

  Laurence Sterne

  Wise, Horse, Men

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• No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

  Thubten Yeshe

  Nature, Confused, Essentials

  Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  True Love, Falling In Love, Real

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• It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Christian, Earth

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• The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

  Henry A. Wallace

  People, Efficiency, Fascists

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• Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

  Will Self

  Communication, Media, People

  "Chris the saviour" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 1997.

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• If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

  David Frum

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

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• The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings are the entities of enlightenment, and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana. It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.

  Nichiren

  Lying, Mirrors, Jewels

  "The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin".

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• We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

  Neil Sheehan

  Leadership, Military, Political

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• I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.

  Richard Rumbold

  Ignorance, Men, Riding

  "The World’s Famous Orations", Vol. III, Great Britain: I (710–1777) by William Jennings Bryan, 1906.

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• We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

  Harry Leslie Smith

  Money, Thinking, Wealth

  "This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time" by Harry Leslie Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.

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• When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time. The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Country, Believe, America

  "The Collapse of American Power". www.counterpunch.org. March 18, 2008.

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• Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Men, Light, Self

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• An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

  Moby

  Thinking, Artist, Joy

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?

  Scott Adams

  Science, Reality, Odds

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.21, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, America, Mind

  John Wesley (1835). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.476

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• All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

  Francis Bacon

  Dream, Astrology, Events

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.13, Jazzybee Verlag

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