Self Deception Quotes
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.
The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.
I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.
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?
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.
One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.
Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.
The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.
