The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

— George Eliot

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

Like anyone who has a relationship with Jesus knows, the coolest thing about it is that it's infinite how much you can learn and…

— Tobin Heath

In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought…

— Swami Vivekananda

There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that…

— B. J. Novak

“Where religious values might be relative, intellectual values fleeting, moral values ambiguous, and aesthetic values dependent upon an observer, the existence of any thing…

— John Gardner

Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It…

— Pema Chodron

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation,…

— Robin Marantz Henig

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek…

— Vladimir Lenin

I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all…

— Thomas Metzinger

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

— Anonymous

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing…

— Mark Twain

“We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in…

— Mark Lawrence