Delusion Quotes - Page 27

• A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Creating, Numbers, Comfort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.98, A&C Black

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  World

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

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• Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Sibling, Belief

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

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• Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to solve. In reality, however, being patient is far from being passive. There is nothing strong or courageous in reacting to hardship or insults with anger - all we are doing is being defeated by our delusions.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Strong, Acceptance, Reality

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• Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hate, Imperfection, Greed

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• This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Dream, Revenge, Heart

  Eleventh of November 1887: Haymarket Memorial Speech by Voltairine de Cleyre, delivered in Chicago, contentdm.library.uvic.ca. 1901.

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• Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do

  Tina Fey

  Hard Work, Thinking, Want

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• Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Europe, Answers

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• Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

  Joseph Story

  Party, Passion, Yesterday

  Joseph Story, Edmund H. Bennett (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.303

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• The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Reality, Filled In, Leaving

  "Chelsea Roff: Science Set Free — An Interview with Rupert Sheldrake". Interview with Chelsea Roff, intentblog.com. September 11, 2012.

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• It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Thinking, Ministers

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Book, Thinking, People

  Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.187, Penguin UK

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• Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.

  Richard Matheson

  Memories, Light, Self

  Richard Matheson (1978). “What dreams may come: a novel”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50.
  Think of it as only 1 year older than 59
  Go ahead, as it's your birthday
  Delusion, today, is just fine

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Thinking, Years

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• I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Limits, Grandiose

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004/ January 2005.

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• It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.

  Steven Furtick

  Vision, Causes, Differentiate

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• Humans see what they want to see.

  Rick Riordan

  Ignorance, Knowing, Perspective

  "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief". Book by Rick Riordan, July 1, 2005.

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• Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

  Arthur Smith

  Book, Tuscany, Excellent

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• The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, People, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest. When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Kings, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (2005). “கீதாஞ்சலி: Kītāñcali”, p.83, Sura Books

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• Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Negativity, World, Reactions

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• The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.

  Stephen Spender

  Ideas, Goal, Able

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• Awakening is natural,delusion is not

  Gautama Buddha

  Mindfulness, Awakening, Natural

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• Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

  Neville Goddard

  Men, Causes, Consciousness

  Neville Goddard (2016). “The Power of Awareness: With linked Table of Contents”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

  Tom Robbins

  Laughter, Reality, Thinking

  "Gracie goes to schooner school" by Tom Robbins, www.seattlepi.com. May 24, 2007.

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