Definition of Delusion

Delusion

The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.

The state of being deluded or misled.

That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

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Delusion Quotations

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan

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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Bodhidharma

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Bodhidharma

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Guru Nanak

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
David Hume

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
Thomas Huxley

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Arthur Erickson

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Charles E. Wilson

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
Christopher Lasch

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
Marco Rubio

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

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Kim Cattrall

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
Barbara Kruger

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

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French

Truth is always a delusion.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
Kevin Costner

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
Daniel Day-Lewis

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis

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

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Delusion Translations

delusion in German is Wahn
delusion in Norwegian is vrangforestilling, illusjon
delusion in Swedish is illusion, villfarelse

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