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• And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.

  Sylvia Plath

  Progress, Done, Something Better

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.141, Anchor

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• Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

  Bill Watterson

  Dad, Mean, Dark

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• Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Nice, House

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.218, Penguin

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• You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god?

  Ryohgo Narita

  Running, Lonely, Memories

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• Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Important, Use

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.296, Harper Collins

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• Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Children, Fall

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.343, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

  Richard Dawkins

  Evil, Religion, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Running, Long, Long Runs

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1971). “The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.”, William Morrow & Co

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• The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religion, Kind, Share

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Faith is indeed the energy of our whole universe directed to the highest form of being. Faith gives stability to our view of the universe. By faith we are convinced that our impressions of things without are not dreams or delusions, but, for us, true representations of our environment. By faith we are convinced that the signs of permanence, order, progress, which we observe in nature are true. By faith we are convinced that fellowship is possible with our fellow man and with God.

  Brooke Westcott

  Faith, Dream, Men

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• People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values. The same thing applies to money that applies to time. I make a practice of watching what people do, never what they say. Whatever is important, to anyone sane, he will make a place for it; people live out their values. Values are different in this respect from "ideals," which are typically vain and effete and thus exist mostly for the sake of promoting self-delusions.

  Kenny Smith

  Time, Philosophy, Self

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• Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life.

  Jamsetji Tata

  Country, Technology, Support

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• Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50.
  Think of it as only 1 year older than 59
  Go ahead, as it's your birthday
  Delusion, today, is just fine

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Thinking, Years

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• Awakening is natural,delusion is not

  Gautama Buddha

  Mindfulness, Awakening, Natural

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• Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Negativity, World, Reactions

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• There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

  Mark Twain

  Upset, Oratory, World

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

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• Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

  Ryan Holiday

  Thinking, Media, Ideas

  Ryan Holiday (2013). “Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising (APenguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.11, Penguin

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• So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how we believe we have experienced God, doing our best to dispel our human delusions. Let me try to do just that. I experience God as the source of life calling me to live fully and thus to respect life in every form as embodying the holy.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Trying, Calling

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• Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

  Carl Sagan

  Light, Self, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, People, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

  Neville Goddard

  Men, Causes, Consciousness

  Neville Goddard (2016). “The Power of Awareness: With linked Table of Contents”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.

  Mooji

  Dream, Being Free, Illusion

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• I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sin, Born Again, Dangerous

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• Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Hopeful, Substance

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.

  Steven Furtick

  Vision, Causes, Differentiate

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