When you are the problem, it's hard to see it.
I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make
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.
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.
A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
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?
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.
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 h...
Reality blithely ignores the lies we tell ourselves about it.
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.
We are all worth something,' she said. 'Zottas are not worth more than the rest of us. Self-Deception makes us into monsters. Selfishness is an excuse to busy your empathy. People are basically good....
It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.