(109 quotes found)
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”
Rain Bojangles
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
Douglas H. Everett
“Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.”
Bhagavad Gita
“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”
Buddha
“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”
A. E. Housman
“Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.”
Irving Layton
“Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.”
Jim Rohn
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.”
Kim Cattrall
