Quotes About Delusion

All actions, Arjuna, are performed by Prakriti, the modes of Nature. The ignorant, deluded by the ego, think, 'I am the doer." Excerpt From 'Invincible Arjuna

We did not yet entirely understand that Mother, as imagined and politicized by the Societal System, was a delusion. The world loved the delusion more than it loved the mother.

The phantom of femininity is an illusion, a delusion, a societal hallucination. She is a very tricky character to play and it is a role (sacrifice, endurance, cheerful suffering) that has made some women go mad.

Mother was The Woman the whole world had imagined to death. It proved very hard to re-negotiate the world's nostalgic phantasy about our purpose in life...we did not yet entirely understand that Mother, as imagined and politicized by the societal system, was a delusion.

In reality we are present, we can do absolutely nothing to alter that. But we can fantasise that we are somewhere else. In fact we have evolved such ingenious devices to delude ourselves that we are absent that it is extremely difficult to switch them off.

When all around seems dead, it is a delusion. Fear has doped us till we no longer see the target changing and moving.

A crazy man calls himself a king. I call myself Queen of the Nile, but the last time I looked there isn't a crown under my pillow.

No one fools anyone much, except himself," said Jacob to himself. "How do I fool myself?

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

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.

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

Lamentable cries came to us from the West for the supplies which would enable patriotic citizens to defend their homes. The resource upon which the people had so confidently relied, the private arms in the hands of citizens, proved a sad delusion, and elsewhere it has been shown how deficient we were in ammunition, or the means of providing it. The simple fact was, the country had gone to war without counting the cost.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

Man is still a predatory animal, and we're only kidding ourselves if we think we're the pinnacle of evolution and civilization.

One cannot find that which never existed!

Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.

She abandoned them under a delusion; picturing in me a hero of romance, and expecting unlimited indulgences from my chivalrous devotion. I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character, and acting on the false impressions she cherished.

All through the ages schoolmasters seem to have had the delusion that they could order society as readily as they could a classroom.

the easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself, for what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true!