Sentence examples for human delusion from inspiring English sources

"It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness".

What is possessed is devalued by what is coveted". Though Updike's more shallow detractors accuse him of partaking in the suburban mirage of happiness achieved, Updike turns that quality into a universal human delusion.

This does not mean indulging ourselves gluttonously, but cultivating tranquillity while avoiding the two greatest human delusions: fear of what we cannot avoid, and desire for what we cannot have.

As much as it is a revelation of the childishness of social hierarchy, of human delusions of power, and of the tragedy inevitable where war or history and innocence meet, Hartley's novel is a fine disquisition on appearance versus naked truth.

Markets are flawed because they reflect human delusions of certainty.

For me, The Picture of Dorian Gray is not just a clever supernatural melodrama, but also a profound text, a horrible vision of the power and frailty of human self-delusion.

For the story in depth they should turn to Harris's excellent "Dreyfus," which deserves a wide audience for its patient, fair-minded exploration of human ideals, delusions, prejudices, hatreds and follies.

But never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

But more broadly, she is after human weakness and delusion.

Her immediate topic was pesticides, but her deeper subject was human arrogance— the delusion that altering the world means controlling it.

Her immediate topic was pesticides, but her deeper subject was human arrogance — the delusion that altering the world means controlling it.