Quotes About Delusion

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.

Callin something a 'moral panic' does not imply that this something does not exist or happened at all and that reaction is based on fantasy, hysteria, delusion and illusion or being duped by the powerful.

Bringing you the Story behind the Story, the News behind the News. Hoping to convince you that reality is usually scoffed at and illusion is usually king, but in the battle for the survival of Western civilization it will be reality and not illusion or delusion that will determine what the future will bring.

And it is only delusion, and not knowledge, that bestows happiness.

In Germany, in France, in Italy, in Russia, and in Belgium, they all obediently served the war propaganda and thus the mass delusion and mass hatred, instead of fighting against it.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

The brave and dear man currently has the exact same sweater on needles (in another yarn, thank heavens) and is attempting to finish it in a month in case the whole repair process on the first one doesn't work out. He's completely deluded, of course, but it seems to be giving him hope. Imagine trying again. It's a wonder he's sober, never mind knitting.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

The Illusion of Truth Gives Us the Delusion of Power

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?Look for delusion and truth in thebottom of your own heart.

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

One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the offing.

The foolish coyote faith that could keep you flying as long as you kept kidding yourself that you could fly.

Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.