87 Quotes About Delusions

The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.

It's pretty difficult to have a serious debate with someone who thinks an all-powerful sky dad is on their side.

You need a body to preserve your soul, not a set of abstract principles.

Reality tastes like ashes

But if the Wall kept proving itself useless, why did more of it get built?”Yu’s voice dips even lower. “Because it seemed an obvious solution. It made both the emperor and the people think something was being done. And we have all, at some point, confused doing something—anything—with actually solving the problem.

And all our gods are not lies. They existed. All our gods, from the beginning of time, have been men with psychiatric conditions. And their delusions were so deep, they passed them on.

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name. His name was Jimmy.