Quotes About Delusion

A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: So far, so good.

Tommy stood on a chair and made a speech of welcome; then Billy had to respond. "The war has changed us all," he said. "I remember when people used to say the rich were put on this earth by God to rule over us lesser people." That was greeted by scornful laughs. "Many men were cured of that delusion by fighting under the command of upper-class officers who should not have been put in charge of a Sunday school outing." The other veterans nodded knowingly.

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.

Build and they will come' is not a strategy, it's a prayer.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.

Wishers were ever fools

Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

The reason so many people are unhappy is, for the most part, delusion. They believe the predominant myths that our culture propagates about happiness.

As a race, we have allowed ourselves to become accustomed to the idea that the proper way to die is in bed, at a ripe age. It is a delusion. The normal end for all creatures comes suddenly.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

That the greater part of mankind are deluded by the splendour of royalty, I am not at all surprised; for the multitude appear to me to judge of people as happy or miserable principally from what they see. And royalty exhibits to the world conspicuously, and unfolded fully to the view, those objects which are esteemed of the highest value; while it keeps the troubles of kings concealed in the inmost recesses of the soul, where both the happiness and the misery of mankind reside.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

But perhaps it's a delusion for each generation to think that they know better than their parents. If this were true, than parental wisdom would increase with time like the processing power of computer chips, refining over generations, and we'd how be living in some utopia of openness and understanding. (pag.288)

Delusion happens when we see all that is from the viewpoint of the self. Enlightenment happens when we see ourselves from the viewpoint of the things in nature.

If you really believed that God preserved you in order to see this scheme to fruition, you are even more delusional than I first thought," I said in considerable exasperation. "It is impossible to argue with a mind that does not admit scientific fact and relies instead upon dogma delivered by the hand of an invisible author.

The person you can most easily mislead is yourself.

There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose.

To doubt the existence of God is the greatest delusion.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.