Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.
I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.
To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
I'm not living under false delusions myself.
The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions. . . If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.
If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
