“Most people are like pre-programmed robots, and unable to go off script for fear of bugging the programme and failing the programmers. All intelligence is art-making, that is, artificial.” ArtFreedomCreativityIntelligenceAiArtificial IntelligenceSelf Deception Book:The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide Source: The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide
“A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.” PhilosophyTruthGeniusSelf Deception Author:Neel Burton
“If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.” TruthPsychologyHumourCommunicationSelf DeceptionSocial Skills Author:Neel Burton
“Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actions that we refine our ethics.” PhilosophyVirtueEthicsSelf Deception Author:Neel Burton
“Poor feeling hijacks thinking for self-deception: to hide harsh truths, avoid action, evade responsibility, and, as the existentialists might put it, flee from freedom. Thus, poor feeling is a kind of moral failing, indeed, the deepest kind, and virtue principally consists in correcting and refining our emotions and the values that they reflect. To feel the right thing is to do the right thing, without any particular need for conscious thought or effort.” ReasonPhilosophyEmotionsEthicsExistentialismEmotional IntelligencePsychoanalysisSelf DeceptionCognition Book:Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions Source: Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions
“There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses, which are constantly shaping, upholding, protecting, and repairing it. The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.” PersonalityEgoPsychoanalysisSelf DeceptionPsychotherapyMasksPersonhoodFreudPhilosophy Of MindSelfhoodEgo DefencesEgo Defenses Book:Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception Source: Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
“Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to disarm them and even, in some cases, to employ and enjoy them. This self-knowledge opens up a whole new world before us, rich in beauty and subtlety, and frees us not only to take the best out of it, but also to give it back the best of ourselves, and, in so doing, to fulfil our potential as human beings. I don't really think it's a choice.” ThinkingWorldGivingHumansMaySelfWholeAbleFormChoicesEnjoyHuman BeingsCasesRichHuman NatureVariousDeceptionNew WorldSelf KnowledgeRecognizingDefiningReflectingSelf DeceptionSubtletyReflecting Upon Author:Neel Burton
