#delusion

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#about #ancestry #common #delusion #hatred

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#delusion #must #renounce #superficiality #vanity

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

#crazy #delusions #giving #i #ideas

The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fair #inspirational #life #unfair #experience

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#another #delusion #differs #love is #woman

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#cannot #corrected #delusions #intellectual #may

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

#believe #briefly #center #delusion #else

I managed to beat Michael Phelps’ 400 meter IM time. And not only did I beat his time, but I did it in exactly 200 meters.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #compete #competition #competitive #delusional

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion. ↗

— Max Scheler

#age

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional. ↗

— James Cromwell

#delusional #factory #farm #hypocritical #opposed