83 quotes found
“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment a clarification of our souls until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.”
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
“Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.”
“Do not delude yourself, tomorrow is not guaranteed; and even if good fortune brings you your tomorrow, there is no guarantee those you love will be a part of it. Do not squander your precious, limi...”
“O how we call each other namesYou call me schizophrenicI call you GodBut we do agree on oneDeluded are we both.”
“When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderf...”
“The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.”
“In dream, delusion, and fantasy, exist mans next best reality: that place where he is the creator of his own worlds; where he builds, learns, discovers and entertains; is master of all outcomes, hi...”
“Our sexual fantasies are often redundant and intense, like many other ideas involving ourselves. Most people approach sexuality limited to the idea that they should imitate other people, art (e.g.,...”
“Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession.”
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has n...”
“A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie.”
“Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity. But when the mirror smashes the reflection of their delusion, it will not falter to ta...”
“Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong”
“Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.”
“People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger.”
“That was your delusion, not my reality.”
“Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. The...”
“Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not specialotherwise special wouldnt mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, Good point. But I actually am one of the few spe...”
“The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion; even to imaginesuch a state of things is painful to us! Re...”
