I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

One might call it the 'mighty surrender': it's sometimes necessary in order to appreciate true greatness in another - this is because there might be a clash of egos, or envy even, or jealousy - and it is through a similar struggle that men and women deceive themselves into rejecting God Almighty.