58 Quotes About Self-delusion

Immortality entails not invincibility.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

I am not hlier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest deludes himself.

But that delusional urge is only one of the varieties of self-deception that encourage us to believe we know another human being and, for that matter, ourselves. This faith in having the measure of others really becomes unstuck when you begin to consider how many you’d acknowledge as having the measure of you. That number dwindles before your eyes.

I am not holier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest deludes himself.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

I'm a good girl. I am pretty. I am always happy-go-lucky.

Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.

Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.