87 Quotes About Delusions

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

All people express a fondness for truth and sincerity, yet many people prefer to live with their illusions and delusions. A person’s sincere desire to believe only what is true oftentimes does not trump their ingrained resistance to truths that fail to coincide with their deeply held desires. People reject truth because it undercuts what they wish was true and despise or discredit anyone whom offers a different version of truth than they are prepared to accept.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Though I was retreating from the Truth, I appeared to myself to be going toward it because I did not yet know that evil with nothing but the privation of good.

Sometimes the shackles of oneself are worse than those of others.

Nationalism is what makes some people think they are better than others and just as often inspires delusions of superiority.

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

The clouds taught me that things are not always what they seem, by making the moon walk.

I wondered if that oneshade of blue really kept the carpenter bees from nesting. I wondered if those bees really believed it was the sky.It’s crazy what you see if you aren’t really looking.