realize I’m making it sound like we’re all crazy, but that’s because we kind of are. Most people are living in an illusion based on someone else’s beliefs.

Ah! How we all love to be deluded! We have a secret dread of being thought ignorant. And we end by being ignorant after all, only we have done it in a long and roundabout way.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

When all else fails, there's always delusion.

The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

when we start to deeply believe in an illusion, it becomes a delusion.

everyone is living in their own self-created illusion,

The great delusion of mankind is in supposing that to be individual and exceptional which is universal and according to law.

Most people are living on an illusion based on someone else's beliefs.

As the poet laureate of all confidence tricksters and treasure-seekers puts it, we were “given to strong delusion, wholly believing a lie.”

We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.

It happens to all of us, time and time again. Because we’ve been deluded into thinking we’re really one person.

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.