Quotes About Delusion

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

Nature is only another chimera.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

Mental –ill health is delusion.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

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

When someone is delusional, he or she can do anything to justify his or her beliefs.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is 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.