Delusion Quotes - Page 3

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.

I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

Biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

History is the lies of the victors.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.

That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

There's a great difference between being positive and being delusional.