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Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him — Heinz Von Foerster

History is the lies of the victors, — Julian Barnes

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right. — Henry Ford

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. — Walter Wager

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege. — Stefan Molyneux

There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion. — Anthony Marra

The arrogance of the intellectual. The delusion that we have more balls in the brain to juggle than most people. — David Cronenberg

It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.' 'Oh, there is,' said Susan. 'Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility. — Terry Pratchett

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless. — John Steinbeck

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy. — Darin Strauss

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. — Edward Abbey

Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers. — Barbara W. Tuchman

My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living. — Willis Earl Beal

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss. — Henry Blodget

We have come to have no idea of profit other than financial profit. The delusion is that cheapness leads to plenty. But what use is plenty of rubbish? — Walter James

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion. — Aml Ameen

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur. — Peter David

Del Usion
If you knew the person
He thinks he is
You'd have to admit
He's one very special guy. — Laurence Overmire

There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God. — Dave Hunt

I no longer knew what was real and what wasn't. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred. — A.B. Shepherd

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Awakening is natural,delusion is not — Gautama Buddha

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement. — Idries Shah

Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind's delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and fitting in. — M.F. Moonzajer

Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It's a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking. — J.A. Redmerski

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit. — Sophie Kinsella

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens — Tina Fey

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. — Judith Kelman

Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows. — Anthony Liccione

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

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings. — Kim Hee-jin

that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness — Devdutt Pattanaik

now I know the power of maya: that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness. Oh — Devdutt Pattanaik

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort. — Stefan Molyneux

The notion that you can come to church on Sunday and bend your knee in worship when in fact you have not done so during the week is a delusion. — Mark Ashton

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up. — Rafi Zabor

Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion. — Gautama Buddha

Karma: The delusion of the pretentious; who think the Universe should act as their debt collector. — Steve Maraboli

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. — John Terraine

Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions. — M.F. Moonzajer

I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being. — Gabrielle Bernstein

Why do you so earnestly seek
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart. — Ryokan

Then he sees that this attachment is all delusion. — Swami Vivekananda

There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else. — Chuck Hillig

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support. — Petra Kelly

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. — Michael Ruse

I was sane once. It was horrible. — Michael R. Fletcher

Christians are called to set people free from the delusion of the world and from the devil's deceit — Sunday Adelaja

Humans see what they want to see. — Rick Riordan

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart. — Sebastian Faulks

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge. — Stefan Molyneux

Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly. — Shenhui

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance. — H.L. Mencken

Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor ... — Thinley Norbu

Delusional or not, maybe if I believe in a better world with enough conviction, and convince others to believe it as well, then it will be real. — Emilyann Girdner

A mind with absolutely no insight into itself, a mind filled with purpose and delusion. — Louise Penny

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted. — Criss Jami

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. — Thomas Paine

Justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation. — Carson McCullers

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. — Richard Feynman

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized. — Ramana Maharshi

Peaks are a process in which confidence is tested over and over before investors ultimately concede that they were suffering from "hopeful delusion. — Peter Atwater

Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored. — Paul Hoffman

The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead

It's one fucking illusion in this fucking delusion... you don't want to be in my dream, do ya? — Deyth Banger

Quitters always believe the lies they tell themselves because delusion is easier to live with than the reality that they settled for an easier path. — Shannon L. Alder

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion. — Nick Harkaway

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. — Aime Martin

Go on down to the local palm reader,
she'll spit out exactly what you feed her
because honey, you already knew
your husband was a cheater. — Casey Renee Kiser

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect. — Steve Maraboli

The idea of having no sin is a delusion; you are altogether deceived if you say so; — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. — Guru Nanak

A form of self-delusion. — Elbert Hubbard

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion. — Robert Todd Carroll

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius. — Jason Calacanis

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy. — Stefan Molyneux

It all makes more sense when I'm out here alone," he smiled. "I can talk myself into anything. — Pat Conroy

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne — Rachel Caine

It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees. — Steven Furtick

Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity. — Michael R. Fletcher

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. — Ramana Maharshi

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia. — John Katzenbach

And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with? — Jeanette Winterson

This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light. — Frederick Lenz

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time. — Philip Yancey

Oh, wait a minute, I was supposed to be cutting back on the self-delusion, wasn't I? Whoops. — Jason Krumbine

Some say while religious fundamentalists betray reason. Moderates betray faith and reason equally. -Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion(Documentary) — Sam Harris

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is. — Douglas Coupland

Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates. — Joseph Delaney

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. — Victor Hugo

my mother sees chaos biting at her doorstep, while the rest of us inhabit a fabricated playscape whose benevolence is a collective delusion. — Lionel Shriver

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial. — John Bradshaw

My feelings are a fact, not a personal delusion. They are valid for me. What business have you got trying to tell me how I ought to feel? — Elizabeth Peters

Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves. — Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist. — Ayn Rand

Normal is the delusion of the majority. — Bernard Radfar