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Self deception Quotes

"Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish"

"It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one’s own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one’s own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions"

"People never change they just become better at hiding who they really are"

"There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion"

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others"

"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage"

"People want to protect their own hypocrisy; they know they have lied and manipulated, but they frame their beliefs as science."

"Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation."

"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself"

"Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation."

"It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise."

"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free"

"What is hardest about reality is how much we have to pretend."

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others."

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