It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream,… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The most transformative experiences people have - bliss, devotion, self transcendence - are currently anchored to the worst parts of culture and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense.” —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS,” — Ryan Holiday 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
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
“This business of 'kidding yourself' worries me. I don't even know how much self-deception I'm involved in. It's hard to get down… — Seth Copy Share Image
Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby… — Thomas Szasz 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception. — U.G. Krishnamurti 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
“Our sweet illusions are half of them conscious illusions, like effects of colour that we know to be made up of tinsel,… — George Eliot 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
“How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The human capacity for self-deception is very impressive, often showing breathtaking flights of creativity. —Jerry L. Horner, Daniel Seligman Research Associate” — Diana Delonzor Copy Share Image
I just can't believe that there won't come a day when people won't be fed-up with being overfed. That they won't get… — Gudrun Ensslin Copy Share Image
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
“The power of self deception is great in the case of all men, but I incline to think that it is greatest… — Herbert Hensley Henson Copy Share Image
Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands… — Sherry Turkle 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
Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure,… — 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
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
“Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away He's a songwriter, he got something to say He says, "People in… — Shannon McNally Copy Share Image
I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
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