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Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.
There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.
The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!
There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.
Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.
Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.
It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.
To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.
My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.
I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.