All 11 Uses of
delude
in
Atlas Shrugged
- No great deposits of metal existed or could be expected to exist there, and there were no indications that could have permitted anyone to be deluded.†
Chpt 1.5
- You suffer from the popular delusion of believing that things can be understood.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- That is a delusion of those whose emotions are superficial.†
Chpt 1.6
- It's nothing but a delusion to flatter your own ego and to hurt other people by flaunting your superiority over them.†
Chpt 2.4
- Why should it hurt other people, if it's nothing but a delusion?†
Chpt 2.4
- She felt certain that it was not the country's panic he wanted to stave off, but his own-that he, and Chick Morrison and Wesley Mouch and all the rest of the looting crew needed her sanction, not to reassure their victims, but to reassure themselves, though the allegedly crafty, the allegedly practical idea of deluding their victims was the only identification they gave to their own motive and their hysterical insistence.†
Chpt 3.3
- It was not an attempt to delude her into believing that they were consulting her, but worse: an attempt to delude themselves into believing that she had agreed.†
Chpt 3.5
- It was not an attempt to delude her into believing that they were consulting her, but worse: an attempt to delude themselves into believing that she had agreed.†
Chpt 3.5
- …their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies you have to dread and flee-that you do not care to live as a dependent, least of all a dependent on the stupidity of others, or as a fool whose source of values is the fools he succeeds in fooling-that honesty is not a social duty, not a sacrifice for the sake of others, but the most profoundly selfish virtue man can practice: his refusal to sacrifice the reality of his own existence to the deluded consciousness of others.†
Chpt 3.7
- The day when he grasps that the reflection he sees in a mirror is not a delusion, that it is real, but it is not himself, that the mirage he sees in a desert is not a delusion, that the air and the light rays that cause it are real, but it is not a city, it is a city's reflection-the day when he grasps that he is not a passive recipient of the sensations of any given moment, that his senses do not provide him with automatic knowledge in separate snatches independent of context, but…†
Chpt 3.7
- The day when he grasps that the reflection he sees in a mirror is not a delusion, that it is real, but it is not himself, that the mirage he sees in a desert is not a delusion, that the air and the light rays that cause it are real, but it is not a city, it is a city's reflection-the day when he grasps that he is not a passive recipient of the sensations of any given moment, that his senses do not provide him with automatic knowledge in separate snatches independent of context, but…†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(delude) deceive (convince to have a false belief)