Quotes About Delusion

He's [Don Quixote's] a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals.

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.

La envidia —gustaba repetir— la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto más de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora.

La envidia la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora.

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

And self-conceit leads straight to self-deceit.

All right, then: I'm deluded and I'm blind.   CLITANDRE

Do you know what a delusion is? It's a false belief sustained despite clear evidence to the contrary.

False pride can make you believe that you are always right, even if you are always wrong. But it's just a belief.

You're so cute when you're deluding yourself.

grandiose paranoid schizophrenia.

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?

Now I realised that the least deluded of all woman was the prostitute. That marriage was the system built on the most cruel suffering for women.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

It is a delusion that, other than assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you can do anything to aid the realisation of your desire. You think that you can do something, you want to do something; but actually you can do nothing. The illusion of the free will to do is but ignorance of the law of assumption upon which all action is based. Everything happens automatically.

Humanity is the only totally false god.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

But it's about adults. The corruption of adults. This delusion that they can get whatever they want for free. That they can lie needlessly, promise anything, and then cheat the consequences. This is the delusion of power. The belief that power erases the need for honesty. That power in and of itself is a fact that supersedes all other facts. And what is the price they pay, our elders for stiffing the Piper? Their future. Because what is the future, if not children?

When we commit to waking up and revolting against the ignorance and oppression of classism, racism, sexism, and all forms of greed, hatred, and delusion in the world, the first step we must take in that revolt is a personal dedication to purify our actions from these things that cause harm.

We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of our deluded conditioning. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness; it is a revolutionary stance from the inside out, for the benefits of all beings in existence.

He was mixing up friendship with acts and atmospheres from the deluded matrix the boys had lived in for a heartbeat in the seventies. She thought, I am your friend, you idiot, and I let you into my perfect body, for Christ's sake.

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

Pleasure is rare, pain is plentiful, and, delusional or not, it hurts like hell.

Man's love of truth is such that when he loves something which is not the truth, he pretends to himself that what he loves is the truth, and because he hates to be proved wrong, he will not allow himself to be convinced that he is deceiving himself. So he hates the real truth for what he takes to his heart in its place.