"We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in th…"

"DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Cha…"

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

"The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often dif…"

"“Everybody, and I mean everybody, myself included, operates not out of a knowledge of what is, but out of a delusion …"

"If a man lives under the delusion that he can do anything that he likes, and that the effect of his actions will neve…"

"What the Buddhists teach is to free yourself from the three great evils in life: greed — which means all kinds of cra…"

"It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of tr…"

"Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then…"

"Delusions are, by definition, fixed, irrational beliefs or convictions which are not amenable to rational disputation…"