289 Quotes About Delusion

I don't think that believing in God is a delusion, but it is certainly nonsense.

Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the fundamentalist Australopithecines are particularly harmful. These beliefs are what we call "delusions". Except unlike in a neuropsychological ailment, the delusion of the fundamentalists is not just harmful for the individuals suffering from it, but more importantly it is the greatest threat to peace, progress and wellbeing of the entire human species.

Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal.

Pursuit of happiness is a pursuit of mirage; you only realize its a delusion at the end of the road

We believe we have dived down to the most unfathomable depths, and when we reappear on the surface, the drop of water that glistens on our trembling finger-tips no longer resembles the sea from which it came. We believe we have discovered a grotto that is stored with bewildering treasure; we come back to the light of day, and the gems we have brought are false – mere pieces of glass – and yet does the treasure shine on, unceasingly, in the darkness!

Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and ‘this’ (akram vignan) is a science itself.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

The long-deluded will at last see the truth, and thus their expressions will have seen a ghost.

[Theology is a] web of contradictions and delusions.