Quotes with delusion

Quotes 21 till 26 of 26.

• The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.

  Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

  Derek Jarman
  British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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• There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• 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.

  The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

  Bodhidharma
  semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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• 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
  American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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• All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-destruction
• instruction
• philosopher
• groveling
• sensation
• apparent

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