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• Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

  Guru Nanak

  Men, World, Guru

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• What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mistake, Religion, Needs

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 18, 2013

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• No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Happiness, Reality

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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• Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

  Alan Barth

  Atheism, Liberty, Criticism

  "The Loyalty of Free Men". Book by Alan Barth, 1951.

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• For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive, because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reality an absolute superior, somehow eternal value; but by shifting this reality to the past ("this-has-been"), the photograph suggests that it is already dead.

  Roland Barthes

  Real, Past, Two

  "Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography". Essay by Roland Barthes (translated by R. Howard), 1980.

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• The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Depression, Our Society, Excuse

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• If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

  Hal Abelson

  Real, Ideas, Numbers

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• One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

  Nicholas Rescher

  Fate, Reality, Long

  Nicholas Rescher (1990). “Human Interests: Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology”, p.101, Stanford University Press

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• You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Mind, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.16, New World Library

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• It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

  Lady Gaga

  Naivety

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

  James H. Austin

  Humanity, Fundamentals, Pointing

  James H. Austin (2010). “Zen-Brain Reflections”, p.201, MIT Press

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• From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Anger, Ignorance, Views

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• Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

  Al Goldstein

  Self, Giving, Fame

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• A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

  William Ralph Inge

  Hatred, Patriotism, Politics

  Sagittarius and George.

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• Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

  Bodhidharma

  Creating, Enlightenment

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

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• Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.

  Daniel S. Greenberg

  Love, Sex, Self

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• There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

  David Hume

  Learning, Men, Numbers

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.347

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• And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Wish, Ordinary

  "Obama’s Healthcare Horror". Salon Column, www.salon.com. August 12, 2009.

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• The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

  William Sanderson

  Sports, Jobs, Hobbies

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• 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.

  James Levine

  Orchestra, Gestures, Conductor

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• I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

  Walter Wager

  Library, Someday, Asks

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• The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

  Christopher Lasch

  Family, People, Modern

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• Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

  Bodhidharma

  Real, Mean, Humility

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.105, Macmillan

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• Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

  Marilyn French

  Love, Thinking, Self

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

  Kim Cattrall

  Lying, Foundation, Deceit

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