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“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 different.”
“What the Buddhists teach is to free yourself from the three great evils in life: greed — which means all kinds of craving — hatred, and delusion. But delusion is really the cause of the other two. We crave that which we delude ourselves into thinking will bring happiness; we hate those whom we delude ourselves into thinking stand to stop us from getting it.”
“It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.”
“Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines”
“Delusions are, by definition, fixed, irrational beliefs or convictions which are not amenable to rational disputation and at odds with consensual reality.”
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Not who you're looking for? Others named delusion: South Korean graphic novel · 1991 film by Carl Colpaert · 1980 film by Alan Beattie · 1998 film by Željko Senečić
A delusion is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust their beliefs upon reviewing the evidence. However:
