Quotes of: Delusion Keyword

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

Douglas Coupland

Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and ...

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions.

M.F. Moonzajer

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Paul Sweeney

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

The Final Empire

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds u...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

The funny thing about the word “delusion” is that it means just that—delusion. When you have it, you don't know it, and that can be a problem.

Unspirituality: Permission to Be Human

Violet Lynn Parker, you’d better spill or I’ll start bellowing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice.

Optical Delusions in Deadwood

The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud a farce of frivolous trite The storybook is blank inside Chivalry has died

Compound Delusions: The Rise and Fall of our Design

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future..

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Lori: Listen to me, Sweetheart. Those assholes at Rekall have fucked up your mind. You're having paranoid delusions. [Quaid holds up his bloodied hands] Douglas Quaid: You call this a delusion?

Total Recall

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons ne...

Albert Einstein

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current...

James Hillman