Self deception Quotes

"You can't imagine how much happiness I found trapped inside a lie." "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." "A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others." "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise." "You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty." "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 the true" "It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident" "The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in" "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves " "There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion" "It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept" "We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage" "If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion." "To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity." "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free"