58 Quotes About Self-delusion

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness.

At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months later, those painful pages were dirt that nourished my yard, which I could walk with bare feet. It was a real and tangible connection to that larger immensity. I liked to remind myself that the same process is going to happen to me when I'm done, when I die and nature tears me up...

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else.

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as many have discovered, you don't really know what you'll do in the dark till the lights go out.