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- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow
- Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others… — David Bohm
- Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better… — Pema Chodron
- Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. — Charles Nodier
- 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
- Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
- There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by… — Mortimer Adler
- 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