Top 25 Delusion Quotes of 89

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

Thinking, Delusional, Admirable

Twitter post from Sep 05, 2010

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

Dogen

Awakening, Delusion

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Gene Simmons

Life, Too Short, Delusional

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Jane Wagner

Funny, Illusions Of Grandeur, Delusions Of Grandeur

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

Tina Fey

Hilarious, Hard Work, Delusion

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

Swami Vivekananda

World, Delusion

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.207, Advaita Ashrama

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Ramana Maharshi

Yoga, Realization, Delusion

Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

Ninon de L'Enclos

Desire, Doe, Delusion

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

Richard Diebenkorn

May, Certain, Delusion

Richard Diebenkorn, John McEnroe, Jane Livingston, Barnaby Conrad (2003). “Richard Diebenkorn: figurative works on paper”, Chronicle Books

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Ludwig Borne

Delusion, Wiser

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Aleksandar Hemon

Sibling, Belief, Delusion

Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

Robert Todd Carroll

Anarchy, Mental Illness, Delusion

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

John Steinbeck

Socialism, Delusional, Form

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

Eugene Ionesco

Illusions Of Grandeur, People, Delusions Of Grandeur

Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Bodhidharma

Creating, Enlightenment, Delusion

Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Chuck Palahniuk

Delusion, Dies

I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.

El-P

Trying, Delusions Of Grandeur, Evolve

Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.

Arthur D. Hlavaty

Enemy, Paranoia, Delusion

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Edward Abbey

Truth, Delusion, Comfortable

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

Adam Carolla

Average, Delusional, Batting

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

Peter Thiel

Lying, Belief, Delusional

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.12, Crown Business

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

Wealth, Delusion, Squandering

"Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. August 15, 2008.

Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.

Thomas Jefferson

Ends, Intrigue, Delusion

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.238