“We all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.” — Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World
Tag: self-deception
Quote of the Day
“If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.” — Errol Morris, “Something Instead of Nothing,” Eating the Dinosaur
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“It’s no big job to fool yourself.” — Jack Cady, The Night We Buried Road Dog
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“One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one’s acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.” — John Williams, Augustus
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“Nothing deceives its possessor like vanity.” — Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard
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“Your choices determine the lies you tell yourself.” — Yahooey, Allow Me to Introduce Myself
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“Few people are designedly and systematically wicked: even the worst find good motives for bad deeds, and are as intent upon discovering glosses for conduct to deceive themselves as to delude others.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned
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“There has, perhaps, never been a deceiver who was not, by his own passions, himself the deceived.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned
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“The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned
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“Sometimes, we pick a fake problem that has a convenient and easy fake solution. Because, the thinking goes, we’re taking action, so things must be getting better.” — Seth Godin, Make believe problems
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