169 Quotes About Self-deception

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Society gives you some goals. You achieve them after much effort. You celebrate for a few days. Then life becomes the same as before. You don't get the happiness you were expecting. Achievements feel useless. Then you attach your pride to them to make them seem useful. Pride is a tool of self deception.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses, which are constantly shaping, upholding, protecting, and repairing it.The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

There is a correlation between how much convinced we are that we do not need some things and how much we need them.

The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.

Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time.

A common phrase: I was deceived; an uncommon one: I am deceived.