Quotes About Delusion

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

There are things, elements in the world, that continue to exist, for whatever time, completely liberated from our delusion. They press us also, and we, of course, if we are to preserve the sullen but comfortable vacuum we inhabit, must deny that anyone else could possibly tolerate what we all agree is a hellish world.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.

If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

I wanted to become a model out of delusion. It was always something that I wanted to do, I just never thought that I would have the opportunity.

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.

You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.

Delusion and denial does not equal an apology.

Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

Jesus made it very clear in His discourse about the end of the age in Matthew 24 that deception and delusion in society — and even in certain sectors of the Church — will be the primary sign that we are near the end of the age.

Let Me tell you unequivocally what is going to happen at the end of the age: There will be an invasion of seducing spirits with doctrines of demons that will attempt to lead the world into widespread, wide-scale deception and delusion. I am telling you up front and in language so clear that you cannot misunderstand — unprecedented delusion will enter the world in that hour.

More than a popular belief, it was a delusion of the learned.

Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.

The weakness stems from our natural tendency to overestimate our skills. We normally have a self-opinion that is somewhat elevated in relation to reality.

Most people believe that they are in fact aware of the future, that they are planning and thinking ahead. They are usually deluded: What they are really doing is succumbing to their desires, to what they want the future to be.

I lay aside the papers. Really, it is beyond hypocrisy; it is beyond even lying: it has become a psychosis.

I fear there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction

there is in all men who achieve their life's ambition only a narrow line between dignity and vanity, confidence and delusion, glory and self-destruction.

I think like an academic egghead, believing that if I write enough paragraphs about a scary subject, give enough lectures about it, it will give up and go away quietly. And if everyone took enough classes about the biology of violence and studied hard, we'd all be able to take a nap between the snoozing lion and lamb. Such is the delusional sense of efficacy of a professor.