Delusion Quotes - Page 15

• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

  Farley Mowat

  Errors, Important, Lasts

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• It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

  Moncure D. Conway

  World, Progressive, Machinery

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• Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Deceit

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• Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

  Russ Potts

  Lying, Mean, Deceit

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• Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Long, People

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• Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

  Alan Barth

  Criticism, Indispensable, Dissent

  "The Loyalty of Free Men". Book by Alan Barth, 1951.

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• Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.

  Paul David Tripp

  Strength, Christian, Perfect

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• The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

  Rick Mercer

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "This Hour Has 22 Minutes". Comedy, (1992– ).

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• The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

  John Dewey

  Democratic Ideals, May, Execution

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.75, 谷月社

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• Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.

  Bodhidharma

  Real, Mean, Humility

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.105, Macmillan

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• There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Optimism, Lines

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 11, 2013

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• This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Intelligent, Light

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• When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Reflection, Opportunity, Order

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.349, Cambridge University Press

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• Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Reality, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Grief, Our World

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• ... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Judgment, Scales, Brushes

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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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• And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

  Philip Freneau

  Self, Long, Shadow

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.813, Library of Alexandria

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• Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

  Petra Kelly

  Men, Mind, Rich

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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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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• Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues that I should be surprised if he were right about everything, but it makes for a most stimulating read. The book is in a different league from Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, and deserves much greater success.

  Jeremy Shearmur

  Witty, Book, Issues

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• Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Hate, Confused

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• For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

  Brian Koppelman

  Artist, Lines, Belief

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• President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Confusion, President

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• I don’t believe in god. There’s no proof he exists. In a world where there isn’t even proof of the future, the past exists. Even if it’s tainted with misunderstandings and delusions, if the people themselves believe in it, the past is the truth to them. And, if you base your actions or your life around it, in a way, it’s a type of god itself.

  Ryohgo Narita

  Believe, Past, People

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