Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.
I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.
There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
Sure, I would have loved it, if we'd gotten 2,000 screens, but I never had that delusion. I was very realistic. I think it's a success, in that it turned out funny, I got everyone I wanted to be in it, and it will get seen. The hope is that it gets a little cult following. I think people will be surprised about who's in it and how funny it is. That's my hope.
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.
If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.
The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.
I'm not living under false delusions myself.
Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.
Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.