Deluded Quotes - Page 6

• I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God’s way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.

  Jonathan Hull

  Monday, Tired, Fate

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

  Neil Sheehan

  Leadership, Military, Political

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• When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

  Bodhidharma

  World

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

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• The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings are the entities of enlightenment, and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana. It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.

  Nichiren

  Lying, Mirrors, Jewels

  "The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin".

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• Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite...know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don't expect them to save us. They don't know how....and when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implodes and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded as the rest of us

  Chris Hedges

  Jobs, War, Self

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• Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you. But, any movement, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mistake, Moving, Talking

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Aug 03, 2010

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• I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded in sitting down at a desk every day and trying to write something? Is it self-indulgent, or might it possibly lead to something worthwhile? At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.

  Richard Rumbold

  Ignorance, Men, Riding

  "The World’s Famous Orations", Vol. III, Great Britain: I (710–1777) by William Jennings Bryan, 1906.

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• Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Men, Light, Self

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• When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time. The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Country, Believe, America

  "The Collapse of American Power". www.counterpunch.org. March 18, 2008.

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• If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

  David Frum

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

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• We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of our deluded conditioning. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness; it is a revolutionary stance from the inside out, for the benefits of all beings in existence.

  Noah Levine

  Selfish, Pursuit Of Happiness, Training

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• What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dream, Depressing, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.31, Publishdrive

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• In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.

  Carl Sagan

  Kindness, Fear, Real

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.298, Ballantine Books

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• Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Love Is, Light, Beloved

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!

  Steven Erikson

  Air, Confusion, Silence

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• Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

  Thomas Frank

  Cutting, Bags, Done

  "No Future for You" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2008.

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• Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Color, Envy, Poison

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl 10: Would I Lie to You”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Evil, Good Man

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: History Lesson”, p.181, RosettaBooks

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• What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your eyes, jostling in your brain like a bunch of overeager school children, about to be released on break. Will you let yourself be deluded? Will you let yourself be decieved? -"On Beauty and Falsehood," The New Philosophy, by Ellen Dorpshire

  Lauren Oliver

  Children, Philosophy, Eye

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.267, Hachette UK

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• If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Years, Doubt

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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