58 Quotes About Self-delusion

Why indeed does the hand experience such difficulty in rendering itself? ...It is a tragedy, or perhaps a boon, that the form should never know itself or approach anything resembling itself without warping the parameters of its being. Awareness is thusly obliteration and through reproduction of this intuitive knowing, the self is contaminated, and thereby annihilated.

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

There's a difference between keeping an open mind and believing something because you want it to be true.

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

In his lifetime, he had seen enough injustice to know the world was cold and remorseless and didn’t care one fig about the happiness of people. He tried to live a good life and devote that life to helping others, but he never thought the world would reward him for his efforts. Such a thought would be the ultimate in self-deluding self-aggrandizement, for why would the world care one iota about him?