Delusion Quotes
Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
1817 Neal Stephenson
Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.
3261 Stefan Molyneux
Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
3695 Ambrose Bierce
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
3931 Sunil Vidyarthi
O how we call each other names
You call me schizophrenic
I call you God
But we do agree on one
Deluded are we both.
1394 Daniel Mackler
When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.
4829 Oliver Cromwell.
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
3060 Nema Al-Araby
The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.
2832 Stefan Molyneux
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
1844 Leo Tolstoy
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
2662 Stefan Molyneux
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.
4538 James Baldwin
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
4664 Gary L. Francione
People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices
2217 Sam Harris
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.
2341 Stefan Molyneux
Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
3974 Suzanne Finnamore
I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil.
2419 Dianna Hardy
Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.
2784 Joe Blow
A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie.
1393 Geoffrey Wood
There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a luminosity to it. Just one Christian of that type can dispel years worth of diabolical delusion.
2263 Jonathan Harnisch
No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right?
1328 Tim Urban
Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special - otherwise “special” wouldn’t mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, “Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones” - and this is the problem.
3878 Rachel Caine
Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne
2508 Ryū Murakami
That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn't any such thing as help in this world.
2729 Noam Chomsky
The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.
4402 Stefan Molyneux
To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.
1161 Stefan Molyneux
Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They're only allowed as much reality as serves the masters. But they're not allowed any reality which disturbs their masters...
1273 A.B. Shepherd
I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.
2960 Marilyn Frye
It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.
1319 Christopher Hitchens
The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that America is too feeble and corrupt to fight. A lot is involved in disproving that delusion on their part.
1070 Saurabh Sharma
There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.
4515 Casey Renee Kiser
Go on down to the local palm reader,
she'll spit out exactly what you feed her
because honey, you already knew
your husband was a cheater.
3521 Stefan Molyneux
You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.
1071 Munia Khan
Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.
4889 Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The seething rage that accompanies the truly despondent, effaces the delusional that mock from the safety of their shared illusion.
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