Reality denied comes back to haunt.
Philip K. DickTag: history self-deception psychology behavior
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. We are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.
Iris MurdochTag: mind self-deception self self-knowledge hidden-self
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: self-deception lying
The best lies about me are the ones I told.
Patrick RothfussTag: lies self-deception lying tricksters
There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself -- and, since the woman knows nothing about it, she is not to blame. For if a man incites himself to drown, and will not restrain himself, it is not the water's fault.
John GowerTag: perception gender men women self-deception prejudice misogyny inequality delusion stereotypes discrimination expectations deceit double-standards clichés cause-and-effect social-norms
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
James BaldwinTag: self-deception
The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?
Umberto EcoTag: devil fate self-deception responsibility destiny choices
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: power morality ethics philosophy will self-deception decadence nihilism philosohers
I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.
Criss JamiTag: fear peace self-deception laziness action destruction inner-peace fire burning forest confusion pretend afraid insensibility
If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade, somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.
Herbert FingaretteTag: self-deception
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