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Tag Name "Delusions" (126)

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Nick’s right, you are psychotic. (Talon) The correct term is sociopathic and yes, I am. But at least I have no delusions about myself. (Zarek) Meaning? (Talon) Take your meaning wherever you can find it. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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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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Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
Raymond Chandler
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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
Alan Barth
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
Adyashanti
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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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Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.
Emmett Tyrrell
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I'm not living under false delusions myself.
Rush Limbaugh
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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
Jane Smiley
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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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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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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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 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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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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It took the real thing to show you the size of your delusions.
Ann Brashares
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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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