We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
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.
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
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.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit either in science or in practical life.
I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Money again has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
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.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible but always on the cusp of becoming real.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
Happy happy Christmas that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
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.
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
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.
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.
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
When I was 24 I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous a movie star all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for really. It was more a delusion.