Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.
It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.
I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.
Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.
The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.
This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.
I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Vision without execution is delusion.