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It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. — Anna Quindlen

If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones. — J. Michael Straczynski

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. — Ayn Rand

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil

I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur. — El-P

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion — Anthony Storr

A Zendo is not a peaceful haven
but a furnace room for the combustion
of our egotistical delusions. — Eido Shimano Roshi

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. — Horace

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

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco

He is suffering from delusions of adequacy. — Walter Kerr

Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too. — Marni Jackson

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. — James Bovard

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. — Jane Wagner

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions. — Tony Kushner

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce

perhaps happiness is synchronising one's personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. — Yuval Noah Harari

Mindfulness can serve as an antidote to living a fragmental life riven with deleterious delusions and illusions. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions. — Christian Nestell Bovee

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' — Arthur Smith

Any time you try to collapse the distance between your delusions about the past and what really happened, there is suffering involved."
p. xx — Mary Karr

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL. D. — Kurt Vonnegut

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.". — Kahlil Gibran

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper. — Derrick Jensen

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear. — Gautama Buddha

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good. — Rob Thomas

A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur. — Peter Clines

History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated. — Julian Barnes

To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed — Christopher Paolini

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? — Robert A. Heinlein

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training. — Chris Pratt

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment. — Dalai Lama

We chart delusions through collective agreement. — Siri Hustvedt

For whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions. — Henri Matisse

We are all blinded by our beliefs. Never stop questioning and realize only respectful discussions can free us from our delusions. — Jim Steele

Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment. — Hannu Rajaniemi

The last man in the world was irretrievably stuck with his delusions. — Richard Matheson

It must be because I've got a permanent job for the first time in my life,he thought. That's why I can't help hearing all sorts of things. — Tarjei Vesaas

Not creating delusions is enlightenment. — Bodhidharma

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil. — Charlotte Bronte

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them. — H.P. Lovecraft

I think when you fall in love, like true love, it's love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions. — J.A. Redmerski

Delusion is the seed of dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There's a great deal of power in pretending. — Suzanne Palmieri

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

Contrary to the delusions in your head, you're not every woman's fantasy."
"I never wanted to be every woman's fantasy. Just yours. — Lauren Layne

My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

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. — Andrew Bacevich

[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions. — Ludwig Feuerbach

The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener. — Steven Sample

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane. — Agnes Repplier

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. — Richard Whately

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. — Bodhidharma

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions ... — Philip Roth

But Perdition was a much asylum as prison, and when you were standing in somebody else's delusions, it was both polite and politic to play along. — Ann Aguirre

If you're going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Science is the struggle to avoid self-delusions or at least not to appear too delusional to others. — D.A. Blankinship

We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to rout out. — Ransom Riggs

He had delusions of adequacy. — Walter Kerr

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand. — Karl Marx

What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be. — Ayushee Ghoshal

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. — Paul Watzlawick

History is not just the lies of the victors; it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. — Julian Barnes

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

But I am a great pretender, sometimes so good at it that I convince myself that what I pretend is what is truly real. — Kameron Hurley

Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions. — Claude Steiner

She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none. — Crystal Woods

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly. — Robert Breault

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

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions. — Vernon Howard

All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we're talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying. — Adyashanti

They love their delusions as they love themselves. — Sigmund Freud

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it. — Randy Jackson

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people. — John Calvin

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions. — Rudolf Wanderone

No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children — Manu Joseph

She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur. — Stephen King

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have. — Hattie Morahan

Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence. — Jack Weatherford

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something. — Vernon Howard

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men. — Victor LaValle

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. — A.E. Housman

Delusions are a vital part of my existence. — Jason Krumbine

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

What I lack in skill and motivation I make up for in delusions of grandeur. — Mira Gonzalez

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives. — Terence McKenna

If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized. — Arthur C. Clarke

It's quite possible that the delusions of today may be the proved scientific facts of tomorrow. — Agatha Christie

The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur; it's a delusion of insignificance. — Steve Maraboli

Wow. Another realm, huh? Your zealous delusions continue to impress me. Is this where we fly off to Olympus or Valhalla or Heaven or something? — Giselle Simlett

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings. — Aleksandar Hemon

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language. — Frank Herbert

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet. — Nell Zink

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