Poets generally love cats because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.
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One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.<br/>i.e. When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion.
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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!
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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions
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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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One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation
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He had delusions of adequacy
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A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did
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From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant
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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
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Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.
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Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.
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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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I consider it the duty of scientific men who have learnt exact modes of working to examine phenomena which attract the attention of the public, in order to confirm their genuineness or to explain, if possible, the delusions of the dishonest and to expose the tricks of deceivers.
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One of his delusions drove him to testify, If I can just get up and talk to the American people, I will be set free.
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Although its name mockingly evokes delusions of totalitarian grandeur, Planet Propaganda approaches a diverse range of media with commonsense thinking and carefree creative energy.
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There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
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Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you
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