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• The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

  Rae Foley

  Doctors, Common Sense, Magic

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• De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of a given time be alive; and quoted the actuarial formula, involving p [pi], which, in answer to a question, he explained stood for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. His acquaintance, who had so far listened to the explanation with interest, interrupted him and exclaimed, 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Science, Circles

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• Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Bed

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• The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.

  Theodor Adorno

  Joy, Culture, Conflict

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.206, Verso

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• Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions,
  Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them.
  Thinking, 'I alone shall do it'
  Is the self-confidence of action.

  Shantideva

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Thinking

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• The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Thinking, Self

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• For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a prodigious parallel: just as in antiquity the dysdaimonic personality could not appreciate how his mentality was bound in by his characterological (banausic, doulic) biases, so in modernity the facile or abstractivist rationalist cannot comprehend how his "rationality" merely slavishly subserves his appetites, delusions, preconceptions, ideologies, etc.

  Kenny Smith

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Self

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• One man's faith is another man's delusion

  Anthony Storr

  Men, Another Man, One Man

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Feet Of Clay: The Power and Charisma of Gurus”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Mind, Generations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

  Tony Kushner

  Ecology, Delicate

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.107, Theatre Communications Group

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• Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

  Steve Martin

  Inspiration, Years, Moments

  Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Long, People

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• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

  Farley Mowat

  Errors, Important, Lasts

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• I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.

  Jim Butcher

  Harry Dresden, Psychotic, Wannabes

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

  Russ Potts

  Lying, Mean, Deceit

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• The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

  Rick Mercer

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "This Hour Has 22 Minutes". Comedy, (1992– ).

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• Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.

  Paul David Tripp

  Strength, Christian, Perfect

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• Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

  Alan Barth

  Criticism, Indispensable, Dissent

  "The Loyalty of Free Men". Book by Alan Barth, 1951.

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• It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reality, Treasure

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.121, Random House

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• The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reactions

  "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Insane, Half

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• 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

  People, Faces, Life Is

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• What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Madness

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.352, Penguin

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• Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Deceit

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• I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

  Scott Lynch

  Unique, Thinking, Epic

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