“ It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
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“ The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions. ”
- Maurice Chapelain- Copy
- 2.5K
“ No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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“ Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. ”
- William Ralph Inge- Copy
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“ There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions. ”
- Ernest Hello- Copy
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“ It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them. ”
- Dame Rose Macaulay- Copy
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“ RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors. ”
- Dean Inge- Copy
- 3.1K
“ In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
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“ Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. ”
- Ludwig Börne- Copy
- 1.7K
“ He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control. ”
- Hillel J. Einhorn- Copy
- 2K
“ Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 1.3K
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