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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
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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.
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Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even the 'unreal' ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing 'external'. We may call them 'imagination' or 'delusion,' but that does not detract in any way from their effectiveness...
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
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If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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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.
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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
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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.
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Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
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