Delusion Quotes - Page 8

• Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

  Raymond Chandler

  Integrity, Men, Hollywood

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.120, Univ of California Press

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• 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Science, Circles, Numbers

  W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.395, Courier Corporation

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• When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Character, People, Photographer

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• When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

  Anthony Storr

  Inspirational, Men, World Religions

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• To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

  Laozi

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Intelligent

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• I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Thinking, Self, Would Be

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• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

  Robert Breault

  Journey, Done, Miles

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• Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Hate, Confused

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Ideas, Ego, Oneself

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• When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Plato, Real, Ideas

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• Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

  Stephen King

  Life, Stars, Lying

  Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

  Philip Freneau

  Self, Long, Shadow

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.813, Library of Alexandria

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• When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.

  Rudolf Wanderone

  Gambling, Ems, Pool

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• The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.

  James Whistler

  Flower, Artist, Men

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children

  Manu Joseph

  Children, Parent, Matter

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• From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Fall, Angel

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• I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I've got a pretty cold honest eye.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Eye, Honest, Cold

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

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• It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the professed spirituality is simply a false
  experience, a delusion of the devil. People who are
  satisfied to meet together simply to have a good time
  among themselves are far away from God. Real
  spirituality always has an outcome.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Spiritual, Real, People

  Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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• A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

  Richard Whately

  Religious, Strong, Political

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• I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

  Louise Erdrich

  Sound, Records, Persons

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• President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Confusion, President

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• Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Reality, Unity, Multiplicity

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• I don’t believe in god. There’s no proof he exists. In a world where there isn’t even proof of the future, the past exists. Even if it’s tainted with misunderstandings and delusions, if the people themselves believe in it, the past is the truth to them. And, if you base your actions or your life around it, in a way, it’s a type of god itself.

  Ryohgo Narita

  Believe, Past, People

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• Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Body, Happens

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• Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Dying, Affliction, Immortality

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