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.
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.
Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.
The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'
When all else fails there's always delusion.
Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.
When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.
Tell everything to your spiritual father, and the Lord will have mercy on you and you will escape delusion. But if you think that you know more about the spiritual life than your spiritual father, and you stop telling him everything about yourself in confession, then you will immediately be allowed to fall into some sort of delusion, in order that you may be corrected.