Quotes About Self-deception

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.

If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing good with them. She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it. She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.

The white southerner had to lie continuously to himself in order to justify his world. Lie that the black people around him were inferior. Lie about what he was doing under the cover of night. Lie that he was Christian.

The white southerner had to lie continuously to himself in order to justify his world.

Segunda verdad: ¿de dónde te vino ese apego? No naciste con él, sino que brotó de una mentira que tu sociedad y tu cultura te han contado, o de una mentira que te has contado tú a ti mismo, a saber, que sin tal cosa o tal otra, sin esta persona o la de más allá, no puedes ser feliz.

Don't tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don't lie to me.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

I like to fool myself into thinking that whatever happens is OK.

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

We actually became just what it was that we'd set out to make fun of.

The beastliness of human nature is always pretty normal. We lie and betray and are wanting in imagination and deceive ourselves, always, at about the same rate.

Guardate quanto gli uomini ingannano loro medesimi: ciascuno reputa brutti e peccati che lui non fa, leggieri quegli che fa; e con questa regola si misura spesso el male e el bene, più che col considerare e gradi e qualità delle cose.

Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required.

They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.

Oamenii se nasc predispuÈ™i la una dintre cele mai tenace È™i debilitante afecÈ›iuni mentale: autoam?girea. Cea mai bun? ca È™i cea mai rea dintre lumile posibile îÈ™i cap?t? din aceast? stare de lucruri coloritul lor tragic. În m?sura în care putem noi s? determin?m, nu exist? imunitate natural?. VigilenÈ›a se impune în fiece clip?.

For humans the idea of freedom is all too often a means of deceiving themselves. And although freedom is among the most exalted of feelings, so is the illusion of freedom among the most exalted of illusions.

Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.

And, incidentally: freedom is all too often self-deception among people. Just as freedom is among the most exalted of feelings, so the corresponding deception is among the most exalted of deceptions.