Delusional Thinking Quotes

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Most people like to live in illusions.

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?

Syria is a difficult country to govern. Fifty percent of the Syrians consider themselves national leaders, 25 percent think they are prophets, and ten percent imagine that they are God.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

The Jewish cabal is out to get me.

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

… the ravings of a maniac

All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

Insanity is arguing with reality.

Sometimes I'll watch teenagers and find myself not quite believing I'm older than they are - even wondering, delusionally, if they can see any difference between us.

No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you.

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.