delusion

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that__ a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it__ going to offend people. Tough.

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

All people express a fondness for truth and sincerity, yet many people prefer to live with their illusions and delusions. A person__ 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.

Whoever doubt is in state of delusion.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.

Eblis said, "No man who thinks ill, will hear the truth despite a hundred signs.When one who fantasises is presented with reason his fantasies increase.When one talks to such a person, their words become the very cause of that person's fantasy. The crusader's sword is a tool for a thief.So the response to him is silence and peace; to talk with an idiot is insa

I was sane once. It was horrible.

The grandest form of delusion is misconstruing the obvious. Persons with an open, inquisitive, and intuitive mind can detect hidden clues that aggressive, narrow-minded, and impatient rationalist fail to perceive.

The end of an delusion is invariably sadness or tears

Truth about tears is that , most tears are the result of a delusion

I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.