When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.
We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom.
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.
Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.
We chart delusions through collective agreement.
If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
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.
Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
Ideation without execution is delusion
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.
The fundamental delusion of human beings is the belief that we exist separately and independently from the rest of the universe.
Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which to obtain their daily opiate: an hallucinogenic euphoria which comes from the delusion of being superior to and more altruistic than all others. They must have 'the poor, huddled masses' in much the same manner as vampires must have the blood of their victims.
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.