“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.” — John Joclebs Bassey Copy Share Image
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“I hate that you think you're irreplaceable. Darling, you're actually upgradable.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
“As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself. — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“love no one until you can love yourself, for love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I'd like to believe that my kiss has made you see me in a whole different light.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
“Deceit or anything that involves self-deception is the source of corruption within an individual.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“why we repeatedly convince ourselves that we've overcome impulsiveness and can stop avoiding our worst temptations.1 This particular tendency toward self-deception is… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Lie detectors (should it prove feasible to make ones that are reliable and easy to use) could reduce the scope for deception… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade , somehow, the unpleasant truth to which… — Herbert Fingarette Copy Share Image
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a… — David Brin Copy Share Image
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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