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Tag Name "Delusion" (408)

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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes as the wind a weak tree.
Gautama Buddha
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When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
William Peter Blatty
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Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life.
Jamsetji Tata
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Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is.
Bertrand Russell
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A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.
Barbara Sher
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Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write sentences of such authenticity that refuge can be taken in them: isn't this enough? Isn't it a lot?
Jonathan Franzen
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Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.
James Levine
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If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.
J. Michael Straczynski
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For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.
Joyce Carol Oates
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In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
Aime Martin
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Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.
John Katzenbach
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Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.
Dalai Lama
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Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Karl Bowman
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Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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When all else fails there's always delusion.
Conan O'Brien
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
Tina Fey
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I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.
John Hawkes
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We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
Henri Poincare
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Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do
Tina Fey
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
Dogen
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However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones
John Quincy Adams
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I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.
Raymond Pettibon
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And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.
Philip Freneau
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