Eblis said, No man who thinks ill, will hear the truth despite a hundred signs.When one who fantasises is presented with reason his fantasies increase.When one talks to such a person, their words become the very cause of that person's fantasy. The crusader's sword is a tool for a thief.So the response to him is silence and peace; to talk with an idiot is insa

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

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He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.

~ Nell Zink

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Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.

~ Anthony Liccione

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It's not that girls are delusional, per se. It's just that they have this subtle ability to warp actual circumstances into something different.

~ Rebecca Serle

Rebecca Serle Delusion Girl When You Were Mine

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

~ Stefan Molyneux

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All people express a fondness for truth and sincerity, yet many people prefer to live with their illusions and delusions. A person’s sincere desire to believe only what is true oftentimes does not trump their ingrained resistance to truths that fail to coincide with their deeply held desires. People reject truth because it undercuts what they wish was true and despise or discredit anyone whom offers a different version of truth than they are prepared to accept.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

~ Rabih Alameddine

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I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.

~ Daniel C. Dennett

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The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

~ Steve Maraboli

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Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

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Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

~ Al Goldstein

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