Delusion Quotes - Page 24

• When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same man again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision; but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained; until the day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Love You

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• It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.

  Agostino Scilla

  Life, Sports, Nature

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• The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action

  Thomas Sowell

  Block, Moving, People

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• In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Simple, World, May

  Letter to "The Keicomolo" - Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (pp. 26-27), 1964.

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• 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.

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• Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Attachment

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• There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Ideas, Feet

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.

  David Mamet

  Grief, Loss, Odds

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• I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Light, Able, Modern

  Letter to Reinhardt Kleiner (14 September 1919), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (pp. 86-87), 1965.

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• This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death. This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Spiritual, Real

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• Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves.

  Mark Epstein

  Healing, Cutting, Hatred

  Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.23, Basic Books

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• But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back - fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Thinking, Done

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls were separated by phantoms and delusions

  Ernest Hello

  Soul, Phantoms, Speak

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• As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

  Adi Shankara

  Inspiration, Reality, Attachment

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• Strong delusions travel like
  cold germs on a sneeze.

  Stephen King

  Strong, Germs, Cold

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• Build your life brick upon brick,
  Live a life of truth,
  And you will look back on a life of truth.
  Live a life of fantasy,
  And you will look back on delusion.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Motivational, Bricks, Looks

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• That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.

  Robert Musil

  People, Voting, Democracy

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• Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

  Orson Scott Card

  Technology, Identity, Body

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.552, Macmillan

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• We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.

  Henry Miller

  Holiness, Kind, Holy

  Henry Miller (1963). “The Rosy Crucifixion”

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• Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an elder, is already halfway into delusion. But the Lord helps the humble, and if there is no experienced guide, and he goes to a confessor, whoever he may be, then the Lord will cover him because of his humility.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

  William Borah

  Freedom, Integrity, Cost

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• The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, People, Religion

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while alive. That so much of this suffering can be directly attributed to religion—to religious hatreds, religious wars, religious delusions and religious diversions of scarce resources—is what makes atheism a moral and intellectual necessity.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, War, Hatred

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2008.

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• A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.

  Scott Thompson

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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