Top Self Delusion Quotes

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future wo...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionat...

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are...

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' W...

Johnson was insulated from reality by his hopes and dreams.

Humans see what they want to see.

Immortality entails not invincibility.

The constant, obvious flattery, contrary to all evidence, of the people around him [Tsar Nicholas I] had brought him to the point that he no longer saw his contradictions, no longer conformed his acti...

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as...

But was it love? Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.

If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.