Quotes About Delusion

Manie sans délire - insanity without delusion.

Even if you are completely delusional, we still have to work out your delusion, right? An imaginary problem needs an imaginary solution.

my mother sees chaos biting at her doorstep, while the rest of us inhabit a fabricated playscape whose benevolence is a collective delusion.

Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the ability to produce food locally. I suppose it shows how delusional the public is, and how our institutional controls have decayed - for instance, lending standards.

I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.

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

in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments.

My delusionary hell does not agree with yours.

I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

If the police knew anything they would understand that there is a huge political power play in action. And they are not going to be immune. If they think that by beating up a few brave, old ladies they will be able to win themselves a place at the table when the Global Reset is put into place then they are seriously deluded. They are merely fodder in a war they don't understand.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

Regrets at losing social or financial opportunities are both delusion and needless pain.

Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50. Think of it as only 1 year older than 59 Go ahead, as it's your birthday Delusion, today, is just fine

Build it and they will come' is one of the most idiotic ideas conceived by man.

The idea that growth is by itself a goal is altogether a delusion. There is no virtue in a company's getting bigger. The right goal is to become better. Growth, to be sound, should be the result of doing the right things. By itself, growth is vanity and little else.

millions of people "deeply believed things that were verifiably untrue.

Reliable senses shared across all normal humans can be expected to deliver consensus. But it is also possible that we could have wide agreement without reliability; we might all be deluded in the same way. Some philosophers have thought that color vision is like this. Colors are not really out there in the world, even if we all experience them that way.

If my favorite Internet company sells for $30 a share, and yours sells for $10, then people who focus on price would say that mine is the superior company. This is a dangerous delusion. What Mr. Market pays for a stock today or next week doesn't tell you which company has the best chance to succeed two to three years down the information superhighway.

Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.

Strano come un delirio persecutorio riesca di tanto in tanto a incontrare, per quanto brevemente, la realtà.

He's getting worse. Reading aloud to no one messages that don't exist and in foreign tongues.

But he might have had a bang on the head! said Joan. Poor little boy, he thinks he was a rat! Hmm, said the receptionist, and wrote rodent delusion on a pink slip of paper.