Delusional Quotes

• Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

  Gene Simmons

  Life, Too Short, About Yourself

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• When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

  Gene Simmons

  Thinking, Important, Enough

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• The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

  James Cromwell

  Attitude, Animal, Suffering

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• I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Thinking, Admirable, Acceptable

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2010

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• Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

  Brent Weeks

  Believe, People

  Brent Weeks (2010). “The Black Prism: Book 1 of Lightbringer”, p.285, Hachette UK

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• There's a great difference between being positive and being delusional.

  Amy Chan

  Differences, Being Positive

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• Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

  Adam Carolla

  Average, Batting

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• A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

  Cheng Yen

  Past, Worry, Mind

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• In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?

  Jon Stewart

  People, Mind, Democracy

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• The delusional is no longer marginal.

  Bill Moyers

  "On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don)" by John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2005.

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• When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most tragic stories – the most gifted people who start to believe that it's really ALL THEM. It's not all you. It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the KITE – it's the AIR.

  Pharrell Williams

  Horse, Believe, Cocky

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• All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Insanity, Philosopher, Thrive

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• Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

  Joe Klein

  Dictator, Diplomacy, Dictating

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• I still don’t believe it. It’s not in him. Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate, we’re all animals here. And we all have a killer’s instinct.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Animal, Pirate

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.215, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

  Don Dodge

  Visionaries, Succeed, Brilliant

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• There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.

  Will Smith

  Successful, People, Quality

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• If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

  Peter Thiel

  Lying, Belief, Behinds

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.12, Crown Business

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• Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny Love, Love Is

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 1 (1916)

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• Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

  Sigmund Freud

  Depressing, Real, Play

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Real, People

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• Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

  Alan Cohen

  Leadership, Motivation, Optimism

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• It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Humility, Arrogance

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• Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

  C. J. Anderson

  Sickness, Sin, Treatment

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• All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.

  Veronica Roth

  Feelings, Want, Desperate

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• The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.

  Richard Carrier

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

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