The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state.

...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.

Henry David Thoreau

Mots clés school church free liberal magazine men-of-straw preachers prison rotten self-deception state straw-men



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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

Mots clés reading books vision belief self-deception narrowmindedness self-limiting-beliefs



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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Mots clés lies history self-deception lying propoganda rewriting-history



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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

Mots clés intelligence self-deception ignorance illusion avoidance



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I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

S.E. Hinton

Mots clés truth lies self-deception lying



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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mots clés truth love lies self-deception respect



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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mots clés lies vision self-deception lying visionaries



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People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Thomas Hardy

Mots clés nature marriage self-deception pleasure matrimony discomfort force-of-nature



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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Søren Kierkegaard

Mots clés truth willful-ignorance self-deception fools blindness willful-blindness



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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

Mots clés wisdom lies beauty goodness self-deception delusion



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