All Quotes By Tag: Self-deception

“Ignorance leads to leaving in self-deception.”

“Does one need to deceive oneself, to understand self-deception! If not, then why do you deceive yourself, by conforming to the social labels, be it a religious label, a non-religious label, a nationalist label, an intellectual label, or a gender label.”

“While facts do kill ignorance, ignoring facts does not kill them.”

“I believe in my mask– The man I made up is meI believe in my dance– And my destiny”

“People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.”

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

“People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they’re children.”

“What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.”

“Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.”

“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it’s a decent girl?””Wouldn’t I know which one I was?””Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”