Deceiving Quote by Blaise Pascal

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus…

— John Calvin

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we…

— Cesar Chavez

How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in…

— Baron d'Holbach

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

— Phillips Brooks

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few…

— Charles Yu

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

— Anatole France

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

We live in a time of great change in how men and women see themselves and how they respond to life and to each…

— Robert Johnson