Quotes About Self-deception

du bist nicht mehr zu retten, Da du dein Elend liebst; du klirrst mit deinen Ketten Und überredest dich, es sei Musik.

It could have been called the scam of the century, their pretense of a happy marriage,yet as several weeks passed and it continued with such perfection, Rebecca had to pinch herself to keep from believing it herself.

It's the lies we tell ourselves that make us repetitive.

I was not a murderer, but I had become an unholy liar, a shameless impostor, and a highwayman with a marked taste for expensive motor-cars.

We carefully conceal our abundant vices from others—and we pretend they're small and insignificant. In fact, we so delude ourselves that we sometimes embrace our vices as virtues. When

The human heart has so many recesses for vanity, so many lurking places for falsehood, is so shrouded by fraud and hypocrisy, that it often deceives itself.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Pretenders are just pretenders. They cannot be the real ones. They waste their own time and harm themselves. They stand their entire life empty-handed and without any vision.

To tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves. Sometimes we tell ourselves lovely tales, sometimes petty lies. Falsehoods protect us, mitigate suffering, allow us to avoid the terrifying moment of serious reflection, they dilute the horrors of our time, they even save us from ourselves.

el más engañado era yo, engañado por mí mismo...

No te duele nada, Lenù. Te has inventado que tienes que renquear para que tu madre no se muera del todo, y ahora renqueas de veras, y yo te analizo, veo que te hace bien.

Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. From this all troubles rise.

A rationalization a day keeps your conscience at bay.

It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake

A person who could actually see can't believe as how the large majority of people deceive only themselves by not being true to ownselves.

Many so-called motivational speakers or spiritual gurus who used to preach others that Don't Give Up have themselves given up their business after being cought of their wrongdoings or seeing that writing quote or speaking a lot through sessions on it is not profitable to them at all

Self-deception is like this. It blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we're blind, all the "solutions" we can think of will actually make matters worse. Whether at work or at home, self-deception obscures the truth about ourselves, corrupts our view of others and our circumstances, and inhibits our ability to make wise and helpful decisions.

Self-betrayal" 1. An act contrary to what I feel I should do for another is called an act of "self-betrayal." 2. When I betray myself, I begin to see the world in a way that justifies my self-betrayal. 3. When I see the world in a self-justifying way, my view of reality becomes distorted. 4. So — when I betray myself, I enter the box.

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

Los seres que abrigan una idea tan elevada de sí mismos nunca imaginan que puedan llegar a caer algún día. Cuando se produce la caída, estos seres se vacían, azorados, desprevenidos; su sustancia se evapora en el estupor del fracaso. Sin medias tintas, ni matices, y sin previo aviso. Así son.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.