Delusion Quotes

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. (H. L. Mencken)
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. View quote
William Ralph Inge
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. View quote
Edmund Burke
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. View quote
Carl Sagan
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings. View quote
Aleksandar Hemon
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. View quote
Ludwig Borne
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. View quote
Rose Macaulay
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. (Bodhidharma)
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. View quote
Bodhidharma
When all else fails, there's always delusion. View quote
Conan O'Brien
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. View quote
Charles E. Wilson
It is the duty of every man, so far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. View quote
Thomas Paine
I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality. View quote
Spider Robinson
Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer. View quote
Edmund Burke
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. View quote
W. H. Auden
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection. (Alexander Hamilton)
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter-perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain it's presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts. View quote
William John Macquorn Rankine
Truth is always a delusion. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature. View quote
Ninon de L'Enclos