Delusion Quotes

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy
Amazing Goodness Beauty Complete Delusion How
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan
Better Space Universe Delusion However Persist Than Far Really Grasp Reassuring Satisfying
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. Bodhidharma
Anger Mind Three Greed Evils Poisons Delusion Passions Afflictions Infinite Rooted Ignorant
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. Guru Nanak
Man World Live Other Guru Cross Delusion Over Without None Shore
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. Charles E. Wilson
Great Communism Socialism Dictatorship Few Society More No-One Delusion Instead Prosperous Any Form Happier Which Produce Should Initiative Suffer Millions
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. Richard Dawkins
People Believe Despite Evidence Total Something Delusion Lack
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. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. Carl Sagan
Great Dark Light Lonely Universe Our Our Planet Some Cosmic Point Delusion Self-Importance Privileged Planet Challenged Pale Speck Imagined Position
When all else fails there's always delusion. Conan O'Brien
Else Delusion Fails Always When All Else Fails
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Christian Nestell Bovee
Happiness Man Happy Our Kind Some Delusion Delusions Without Realities Necessary
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke
Never Give Up People Liberties Some Give Never Delusion Up
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. Ellen G. White
Great Impossible Will Before Our Distinguish Sight Marvelous Except Open Counterfeit Delusion True Perform Soon Between His Antichrist Closely Scriptures Them Us Holy Holy Scriptures Resemble Works Last
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed. Jimmy Carter
God People Blessed Own Rich Being Rich Believe President Ought Ability Self Delusion Idea Powerful Self-Delusion Because Always Opponent Were Being Your Who Element Deserve Among Compatible
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan
Me Better Universe Delusion However Persist Than Far Really Grasp Reassuring Satisfying
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. H. L. Mencken
Love Woman Love Is Delusion Another Differs
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Marilyn French
Love You Love Is Yourself Mind Insanity Power Lose Think Ancient Ancient Greeks Rational Knew Delusion Taking Over Self-Destruction Well Greeks Straight Lucid Even
There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so. Claire Messud
People Will Live Simply Delusion Because Who
The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion. Paramahansa Yogananda
God Man Light Made Men Types Dream Cosmic Shadows Perceived Delusion Looks Who Consciousness Images
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. William Inge
Patriotism Hatred Nation Society Ancestry Neighbours About Delusion Common United
It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion. Aml Ameen
Life Funny Hope Best You Reality Projection Witness Mind Feeling Live Funny Thing Once Worst Arabic Something Investing Delusion Name Suppose Principle Exist To Live By Turning Means Your Thing Desire Alchemy
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation. Arthur Erickson
Entertainment Dark Feeling Desolation Bit Delusion Devoid Left Hit May After Meaning Us Initial Amuse
Truth is always a delusion. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Truth Truth Is Delusion Always
Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich. George Osborne
You Balance Rich Think Backs Only Economic Never Delusion Budget Just Poor Should
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Michael Crichton
Other Our Stubborn Delusion Self-Destructive Any Just View Species
Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery. Noam Chomsky
You Everyone Television See Delusion Look Knows Expect Get Information Ad Imagery
All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control. Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narcissism Control Virtuoso Distilled Total Charm Risk-Taking Delusion Over Terror Years Cunning Personal Many Showmanship Spectacle
Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me. Tracy McMillan
Me Relationship You Happy Women Think Our Evolutionary Fine Only Delusion Know Partnership Truly Maybe Just Where Togetherness Millions Desire Need
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