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Tag Name "Delusions" (126)

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Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'
Dalai Lama
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I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
El-P
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Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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We are squandering our wealth. In many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom...
Andrew Bacevich
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
Eugene Ionesco
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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
Ann Brashares
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Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to solve. In reality, however, being patient is far from being passive. There is nothing strong or courageous in reacting to hardship or insults with anger - all we are doing is being defeated by our delusions.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.
Arthur Koestler
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Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.
Glen Duncan
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I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I've got a pretty cold honest eye.
Bebe Neuwirth
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In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call happiness, if we be but able to entertain them.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
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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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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Bodhidharma
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One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
Horace
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I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.
Camille Paglia
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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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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
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The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge. - James Baldwin, The Creative Process
James A. Baldwin
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I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.
Chris Pratt
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I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.
Christopher Hitchens
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