Quotes About Self-deception

Rationalization is Resistance's right-hand man. Its job is to keep us from feeling the shame we would feel if we truly faced what cowards we are for not doing our work.

It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

But rationalization has its own sidekick. It's that part of our psyche that actually believes what rationalization tells us. It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

There is nothing strange or unexpected about Donald Trump. He is the logical conclusion of what the Republican Party became over the last fifty or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race, self-deception, and anger that became the essence of the Republican Party. Trump isn't an aberration of the Republican Party; he is the Republican Party in a purified form.

We believe what we want to believe.

If people believe you're brave you may not only half believe them but even draw a spurious courage from their delusion.

The only possible outcome of double thinking is that you invariably end up negating whatever it was motivating you in the first place. Forcing yourself to think twice about something is just admitting that somehow you are instinctively stupid, and that repetition is the only thing that will save you from yourself.

We are who we pretend to be.

Todo era cuestiòn de ver el futuro, de saber verlo con claridad y deshacernos por un instante de nuestra propensiòn al engaño, al engaño de los otros y de nosotros mismos, a las mil mentiras que nos decimos sobre lo que puede pasarnos. Es necesario mentirnos, claro, porque nadie puede soportar demasiada clarividencia.

Yo soy Etchenike. Si le hubiera dicho que era Robert Redford o el mismísimo San Puta, el efecto no habría sido mayor.

Because cruelty is made easier by hypocrisy and self-deception, they are bound to stand high on the list of vices that begins with cruelty.

I'd really done it now. I'd come to camp planning to be special. Now I was special. I was probably the biggest liar that Camp Pinetree had ever seen.

I am not sincere even when I am saying that I am not sincere.

Pero el tiempo me ha enseñado que todos estamos predispuestos a creernos nuestras propias mentiras, siempre y cuando nos favorezcan.

It happened with me in the past that I was not well trained for a reason, like an injury, and I started talking a lot to fool myself, to show everyone that I'm fine, but I was not.

The greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Once you believe that you are infallible, that success will automatically lead to more success, and that you have "got it made," reality will be sure to give you a rude wake-up call. Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.

Evil comes from man's own "vain imaginings.

To argue otherwise was to lie to oneself.

We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.

Nadie está tan vacío como el que cree que está lleno.

This feeble attempt at self-deception only makes the truth harder when you're forced to meet it.

What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.