Believe Quote by Colin Wilson

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

— Mason Cooley

Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

— Mason Cooley

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

— Arthur Golden

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual…

— William Godwin

“Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus…

— Walter Kaufmann

Self-deception helps us deceive.

— David Livingstone

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

— Carl Sagan

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public…

— Thomas Paine

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred.”

— Arthur Golden

“The passion hypothesis is not just wrong, it’s also dangerous. Telling someone to “follow their passion” is not just an act of innocent optimism,…

— Cal Newport