
“I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.”
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
This is attributed to Pirsig by Richard Dawkins in the Preface to The God Delusion (2006), p. 28, but cannot be found prior to that. It is obviously a paraphrase of the following from Pirsig's Lila - An Inquiry Into Morals (1991): „An insane delusion can't be held by a group at all. A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion." ( books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=51i6WkGn6qYC&q=%22An+insane+delusion%22; books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=WZtRAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA426)
Disputed
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.”
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
“This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.”
Pearls of Wisdom
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
Source: Epigrams, p. 369
Source: The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”