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Tag Name "Delusion" (408)

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
Agnes Repplier
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Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an elder, is already halfway into delusion. But the Lord helps the humble, and if there is no experienced guide, and he goes to a confessor, whoever he may be, then the Lord will cover him because of his humility.
Silouan the Athonite
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To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.
Ruth Marcus
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Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.
C. S. Lewis
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A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.
Konrad Lorenz
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Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea. The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.
William Butler Yeats
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Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.
John Bradshaw
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Enlightenment is construed as seeing things as they really are rather than as they appear it is a direct insight into, and discernment of, the nature of reality that is apprehended only by wisdom, which transcends and is prior to the activity of discriminative thought. In this view, delusion is defined as all that is opposed to enlightenment.
Kim Hee-jin
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As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
Adi Shankara
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
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Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death.
Sathya Sai Baba
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Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.
Hannu Rajaniemi
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Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity. It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.
James Altucher
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We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again. ~Fiddler, pg. 558
Steven Erikson
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No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.
H. L. Mencken
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.
Thomas Szasz
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The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.
John F. Kennedy
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When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.
Eric Hoffer
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I used to think I was a singer I had my own delusions about it.
Randy Jackson
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All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.
Percy L. Greaves, Jr.
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