Delusion Quotes - Page 16

• I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

  El-P

  Bored, Want, Delusions Of Grandeur

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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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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• Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

  John Katzenbach

  Doubt, Paranoia

  John Katzenbach (2002). “The Analyst”

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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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• I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Humble, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.7, Criss Jami

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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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• But you must still know to respect other people's faith.'
  'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.'
  'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.'
  'In which case I believe in Jedi

  Michael Arditti

  Believe, People, Locks

  Michael Arditti (2009). “The Enemy of the Good”, Arcadia Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.

  Dave Hunt

  Fall, No Excuses, Word Of God

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• I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it's a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they're about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don't think it's conservative or delusional. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic.

  Tina Modotti

  Religious, Believe, Eye

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• The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be scientists, engineers, technicians, executives, consultants, teachers, lawyers and the like, and then somehow find the appropriate number of job openings in the very narrow high-tech sector, seems at best a pipe dream, and at worst a delusion.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Dream, Teacher, Jobs

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• As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Long, Triumph, Essentials

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• Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

  Jane Smiley

  Lying, Wicked, Good Intentions

  Jane Smiley (2010). “Duplicate Keys”, p.290, Anchor

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• Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Reality, Relief

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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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• All life is a delusion of the senses.

  Margery Wilson

  Life Is, Senses

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• Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Teacher, Laughter, Opportunity

  William Hazlitt (2004). “On the Pleasure of Hating”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

  Stephen King

  Life, Stars, Lying

  Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

  Craig Stone

  Men, Single Man, Deceptive

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• When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.

  Rudolf Wanderone

  Gambling, Ems, Pool

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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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