Delusion Quotes - Page 17

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

Kodo Sawaki

Loss, Enlightenment, Gains

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Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

Emmett Tyrrell

Travel, Struggle, Home

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In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.

Frederick Lenz

Running, Women, Hate

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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Atheism, Doctrine, Asceticism

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I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.

Tony Robbins

People, Style, Intense

Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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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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By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.

Niccolo Machiavelli

People, Brave, Promise

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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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I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.

El-P

Trying, Delusions Of Grandeur, Evolve

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

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No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored.

Thomas Huxley

Beautiful, Cat, Thinking

"Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 588), 1997.

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It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the professed spirituality is simply a false
experience, a delusion of the devil. People who are
satisfied to meet together simply to have a good time
among themselves are far away from God. Real
spirituality always has an outcome.

Oswald J. Smith

Spiritual, Real, People

Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humankind will never be able to live and work without this consoling delusion of its ascent into morality, without this dream of final and ultimate accord.

Stefan Zweig

Faith, Dream, Peace

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Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

John Katzenbach

Doubt, Paranoia

John Katzenbach (2002). “The Analyst”

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Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise, unethical, or un-Constitutional.

Jim Babka

Law, Matter, Congress

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We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.

John Ralston Saul

Self, Needs, Spots

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From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

Martin Luther

Dream, Fall, Angel

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

Bruce Springsteen

Running, Kings, Dark

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In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on.

Brian Evenson

Reading, Mean, Thinking

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Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

Dalai Lama

Mind, Enlightenment, Technique

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I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I've got a pretty cold honest eye.

Bebe Neuwirth

Eye, Honest, Cold

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

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No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children

Manu Joseph

Children, Parent, Matter

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Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.

Michael Mewshaw

Travel, Home, Alive

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From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

Swami Vivekananda

Memories, Confused, Men

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You're living in a delusion, based on your legendary father.

Sergio Martinez

Motivation, Father, Fighter

"Chavez Jr. tries to write his own legend" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. September 14, 2012.

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When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

Dalai Lama

Hate, Thinking, Politics

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