Quotes About Self-deception

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.

Absolute honesty is essential in one's search for God (Truth). The subtleties of the Path are finer than a hair. The least hypocrisy becomes a wave that washes one off the Path. It is your false self that keeps you away from your true Self by every trick it knows. In the guise of honesty this self even deceives itself. For instance your self claims, I love Baba. The fact is, if you really loved Baba you would not be your false self making the self-asserting statement!

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

From his book "Was That Me? Turning Points in my Life." A quote from my father, "The easiest person to fool is yourself."

It's lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We'd all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you.

Proust laat ook zien dat er geen betere manier om anderen te misleiden bestaat dan eerst jezelf te misleiden: 'Men liegt het hele leven door, met name tegen geliefden, en bovenal tegen de vreemdeling wiens minachting ons de meeste pijn zou doen: zichzelf.

Because marijuana is so efficient at cutting off all authentic awareness of our emotional body condition, it allows us to actually believe we are peace-loving people.

Aren't liars just storytellers who hate themselves?

She would always believe that he was someone else, that he wasn't himself but some fanciful idea of a foreign person; she would always feel like she was someone special because she had condescended to be with someone everyone else hated.

All right, then: I'm deluded and I'm blind.   CLITANDRE

Humanity is entangled in the web of its own egoism, people get entangled in their own self-deception, where they manipulate clip thinking, the blindness of cynical skepticism, where they react not to truth, but to social status, each thread of selfishness was formed by the line of human instinct, billions of vicious threads of selfishness, turn everything into nonsense , and lead the herd instinct to a dead end, collective, mass consciousness.

Life is a cinema industry of incriminating evidence of higher powers, constant rebirths of reincarnation are endless movie takes. In front of lies or hypocrisy, a numbering clapper announces the scene of a comic sketch of self-deception.

Life is a plunge into despair and inevitability, they make the colors of the madness of self-deception more and more vivid, this is a painting of great denial, the sunny reality of optimism.

Thinking is a neural-gene transformation under the influence of instinctual defects and vices, paradoxes like selfishness and self-deception. What shapes the quantum deformations of the future.

Truth under anesthesia, hypnotic serum of truth, under a layer of surrealism of self-deception.

Truth under anesthesia, hypnotic truth serum, under a layer of surrealism of self-deception.

Deceit or anything that involves self-deception is the source of corruption within an individual.

My ignorance is trying to flatter me that I know everything.

It is one thing to insist on walking south when the compass is pointing north. But to "fix" the compass so that it tells you that the wrong way is the right way is far, far worse. You can correct a mistake. But once you tell yourself it wasn't a mistake there's no way back.

You're so cute when you're deluding yourself.

Western scientists built an intellectual culture based on the premise that it was worse to fool oneself into believing in something that did not exist than not to believe in something that did.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.