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• I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Limits, Grandiose

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004/ January 2005.

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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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• I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Lucky, Mets

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• Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, People, Way

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• The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

  Joel Salatin

  Responsibility, Average, Should

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• Vision without execution is delusion.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Vision, Execution

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• Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

  Tina Fey

  Hilarious, Hard Work, Percent

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• I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.

  Daniel Dennett

  People, Good Questions, Asking

  "Dan Dennett and the New Atheism". Interview with Julian Baggini, www.philosophersmag.com. March 2010.

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• As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Civilization, Long, Belief

  1850 Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

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• Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest

  Paul Newman

  Dream, Kids, Reality

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• The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Self, Trying

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• There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that.

  R. C. Sproul

  Running, Jesus, Believe

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.48, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half the human race has been cheated and deceived, and churches are monuments of folly. If the Bible is the Word of God and inspired, all who refuse to believe it are in fearful danger; they are living on the brink of eternal misery. No man, in his sober senses, can fail to see that the whole subject demands most serious attention.

  J. C. Ryle

  Believe, Men, Race

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Mean, Past, People

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• We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

  Norm MacDonald

  Flattery, Conceit, Deceived

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• Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Hard Times, Law

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.40, Vintage

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• Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Spring, Work, Character

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.20, Vintage

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• Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.

  H. L. Mencken

  Kings, Animal, Men

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.128, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Should, Objects

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.229

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• Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

  W. H. Auden

  Curious, Genealogy, Admirable

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("As It Seemed to Us"), (p. 498), 1973.

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• Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor.

  Thinley Norbu

  Mean, Lost, Subtle

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• Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Believe, Men, Vegetarianism

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1909). “Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern”

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• I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Inspiration, Voice

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.342, Penguin

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• In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  War, Dark, Rights

  Douglas A. Blackmon (2009). “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II”, p.394, Anchor

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• I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Order, Empires, Chaos

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