289 Quotes About Delusion

Policy makers beware: unless you are ready to admit that you are facing an essentially theological problem in the Middle East, do not go about prescribing solutions, for you may actually make matters worse—particularly by creating the false impression that economic, sociological, or political programs can fix what is, in fact, a delusion of faith

Thanks Giving.The Indian and the White Man together.The pageantry spoke to me of civilization.

Didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion?

There’s only one difference between love and mental illness. Both are distorted versions of reality, except with mental illness you don’t have to fuck the thing making you ill. Love was something he’d come to regard as a branch of pathology.

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.

We want our delusions and will violently defend these when confronted. We want to believe that the job that is slowly choking us is good, because the effort it would take to change is too terrifying to contemplate. We never want to hear how badly we are being treated in a relationship because we are strong and how dare you suggest we don't know better.

Once the entrancement (Infatuation; Deluded state), in material objects, is gone; the loss in spirituality stops!