Delusion Quotes - Page 19

• I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.

  Tony Robbins

  Answers, Might, Knows

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• We should realize that our deadliest enemies are anger and other delusions. Since these delusions are deeply ingrained mental habits, working to overcome them is not always easy.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Enemy, Overcoming, Realizing

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• ...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Dark, Self, Age

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.5, David R. Godine Publisher

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• You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

  Zadie Smith

  Strong, New York, Ambition

  "Zadie Smith On Manhattan’s ‘Sociopathic’ Ambition" By Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2014.

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• I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Maintaining, Way, Belief

  "Q & A With Miracle Mistress Gabrielle Bernstein, Author of May Cause Miracles". Interview with Latham Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

  Susan Jacoby

  Disappointment, Writing, Simple

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• Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Objectivity, Done, Insight

  "The Certainty of Uncertainty: Dialogues Introducing Constructivis" by Bernhard Poerksen, (p. 3), 2004.

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• So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and perhaps the most dangerous kind. For in letting ourselves forget about the common threads of our innermost wishes, we erode our foundations and lose the keystone of our souls.

  Tiffany Baker

  Believe, Common Threads, Soul

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• Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

  John Terraine

  History, Waiting, Matter

  John Terraine (1980). “The smoke and the fire: myths and anti-myths of war, 1861-1945”, Sidgwick & Jackson

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• I'm not living under false delusions myself.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Science, Mirrors, Car

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• RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reflection, Experience, Observation

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.175, 谷月社

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• I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

  Louise Erdrich

  Sound, Records, Persons

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• Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down] was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together-radiant, everlasting.

  Alice Munro

  Wall, Pain, Writing

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• The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Thinking, Land

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.128, University of Chicago Press

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• We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Positive Thinking, Firsts

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• The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Space, Demise, Void

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

  Meryl Streep

  Sound, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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• You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Strong, Attachment

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and a little bit of pretentiousness. And I thought, "I'll write the guy like that. It'll allow me to make fun of everyone else if I make fun of myself."

  Greg Mottola

  Fun, Writing, Guy

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• Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

  Victor LaValle

  Men, Doubt, Machines

  Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.230, Oldcastle Books

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