Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
Words are illusions.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.