Quotes About Delusion

He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it.

Anyway, she thought, impatiently, if I wanted him I think I'd find some way of hurrying him up. Ludovic SPEED! Was there ever such a misfit of a name? Such a name for such a man is a delusion and a snare.

There is no need of my either forgetting or remembering it, said Rosemary, a little wearily. YOU forget that I'm an old maid, Ellen. It is only your sisterly delusion that I am still young and blooming and dangerous. Mr. Meredith merely wants to be a friend—if he wants that much itself. He'll forget us both long before he gets back to the manse.

People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.

I loved everything to anything to everyone who surrounded him. He was perfect. A delusion with a sweet melancholy taste. He was crazy, but he was my crazy and inside, everything felt right.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

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

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

In the end, you can always convince yourself that a version of the truth is the truth itself.

Do you derive your identity by comparing yourself with me? This is maya, a necessary delusion without which society cannot function. It can uplift you with inspiration, depress you with jealousy or grant you peace by revealing how different you are from me.

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

When the reference point is aham, not atma, when the world is only Brahmanda not Prakriti, one is as deluded as one who is intoxicated.

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

the power of maya: that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness.

BUT BRAHMA STUBBORNLY REFUSES TO take the journey towards Purusha. He is determined to find identity and meaning through Prakriti alone. Brahma divides subjective reality into two parts: what belongs to him and what does not belong to him. Property is thus created. It is humankind's greatest delusion through which humanity seeks to generate meaning and identity.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

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

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

The core delusion is that I am here and you are there.

You must understand the immense power of self-serving delusion." I

What's going on outside, Ravic?" "Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide and at the same time deluding itself about what it's doing." "Will there be war?" "Everyone knows that there will be war. What one does not yet know is when. Everyone expects a miracle." Ravic smiled. "Never before have I seen so many politicians who believe in miracles as at present