Top Delusion Quotes

The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attrac...

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Delusion Definition

(n.) The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.

(n.) The state of being deluded or misled.

(n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.

There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it...

I'm not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I'm scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be "authority", and so do their bidding, and pay for their empire...

The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...

I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

In the natural sciences, some checks exist on the prolonged acceptance of nutty ideas, which do not hold up well under experimental and observational tests and cannot readily be shown to give rise to...

The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it no higher)...

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that bli...

Wait!" said Erbrechen, suddenly feeling jovial. "I change my mind. Never shite again. Ever. Anywhere."It was a small thing, but of such small things were life's joys truly made. The thought, he knew,...