Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You're such a sucker for sweet talk that you'd lie with every scumbag who comes your way.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire. — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“I think that before and after we kissed are two different timelines.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
“Who do you think is lying to us?” Shevek demanded. Placid, Bedap met his gaze. “Who, brother? Who but ourselves?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The Soul Toupee is that thing about ourselves we are most deeply embarrassed by and like to think we have cunningly concealed… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“There is no room for morbid introspection in the life of a follower of Jesus. Why? Because when we search our own… — Gary Rohrmayer Copy Share Image
Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I used to be amazed at her self-deception, but now I see I am exactly the same. I used to think people… — Dizz Tate Copy Share Image
If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or… — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
“There’s no greater perjury than self-deception. Lying to ourselves puts to death our definitive truth. Confronting the lies we’ve told ourselves, no… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“As long as you regard yourself or any part of your experience as the "dream come true," then you are involved in… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
“My wife of more than forty-years shot herself yesterday afternoon. At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing… — Richard Mason Copy Share Image
“Once this bubble of self-deception is burst and the mask that shielded her and others from what she wished to ignore is… — Susan Weitzman Copy Share Image
The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
