Delusion Quotes
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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
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I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.
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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.
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Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.
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A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.
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Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
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What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?
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...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.
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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
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Low self esteem is a delusion, and it can cause people to have many maladjustments in life.
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I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.
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There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe that the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sick-rooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.
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I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the touring and the albums and all that, but it's pretty amazing to go into a library and see your book there.
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The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion.
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The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.
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Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
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We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...
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The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.
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Vision without execution is delusion.
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What good was a truth that could be perceived only through delusion?
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There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
