169 Quotes About Self-deception

Who do you think is lying to us?” Shevek demanded. Placid, Bedap met his gaze. “Who, brother? Who but ourselves?

Concealing is the human way of pretending that we are who we imagine ourselves to be in the fairy tales we invent, that our lives have unfolded as we wish they would have rather than as they so wrenchingly do.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

Such people, who keep any nature of the provisions for any subject, in any form; they fulfil their pledge for that; however, to hope for justice, from that people, is a just, self-deception.

Such people, who keep any nature of the provisions for any subject, in any form; they fulfil their pledge for that; however, to hope for justice, from that people, is just self-deception.

Normally, I observe that the worse the quality of one's existence (as assessed by the subject himself), the greater the propensity to offer others pearls of wisdom about how life is and how it should be lived and, on average, to expect them to be collected.

I hate that you think you're irreplaceable. Darling, you're actually upgradable.

Sometimes the shackles of oneself are worse than those of others.

[W]henever we heard an unflattering portrait of our own side our first question to ourselves was not “Is this true?” but “What are they trying to hide about themselves by accusing us of this?” Once this mental defense system had been perfected, few criticisms could hit home.