Quotes About Delusion

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

In the arc of an unremarkable life, a life whose triumphs are small and personal, whose trials are ordinary enough, as tempered in their pain as in their resolution of pain, the claim of exclusivity in love requires both a certain kind of courage and a good dose of delusion.

You lie even to yourself. Now that is the mark of a fool.

BALLOON, n. A contrivance for larding the earth with the fat of fools.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

When the lunatic is met with ideas incompatible with his delusion he distorts facts by rationalization to preserve the inner consistency of his delusions.

People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Los idiotas siempre están seguros de todo, salvo de lo idiotas que son.

A fool's paradise.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.

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

The pitfall of Bene Gesserit training, she reminded herself, lay in the powers granted: such powers predisposed one to vanity and pride. But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.