A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Camille Paglia
But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
Marco Rubio
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
Al Goldstein
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Bodhidharma
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
Ludwig Borne
Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.
James Levine
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
Alexander Alekhine
I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
Walter Wager
I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.
Steve Albini
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
Robert Walpole
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
Rose Macaulay
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Guru Nanak
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
Charles Mackay
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