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Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel

“The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.”

Stills Hurt Pleasure Situation Impossible Despair Despite Mess Deception It Hurts Hopelessness Impossibility It Still Hurts

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.”

Illusion Deception

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.”

May Self Defined Deception Reasoning Self Deception

Book:Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS

Source: Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Self Shows Truth Able Meditation Ignorance Deception Wrong Show Me Self Deception Open Minded Wise Man Once Said Open Mindedness Narrow-minded

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.”

Spiritual Strong Weapons Weak Terrorism Deception

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.”

Self Accepting Empty Deception Flattery Self Deception Pretense

Book:The Magic of Recluce

Source: The Magic of Recluce

“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”

Self Fate Capacity Deception Self Deception Degrading Best Self

Author:George Eliot

“When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.”

People Thinking Knows World Mean Eye Care Difficult Opinion Willing Majority Contrary Deception Conventions Approval Deceiving Neighbour Unconventional

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”

Thinking World Humans Doe Self Wisdom Understanding Knowing Mystery Ignorance Fool Limits Mark Genuine Destroyed Limitation Deception Self Deception

Author:Mortimer Adler

“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”

Love Loss Love Is Terrible Eternal Heartbreak Eternity Oneself Deception Cheating Cheat Cheated Reparations Cheated On I Cheated Never Cheat No Cheating

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all the things you'd rather not say, at least not in mixed company." (Ellen Hopkins)”

Company Mouths Monsters Likes Deception Hopkins

Book:Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy

“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”

Lows Deception Host Self Deception

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.”

People World Book Self Facts Values Psychology Evidence Economics Honestly Scripture Significant Deception Cosmos Our World Domain Self Deception Cosmology Insufficient Immensity Presuming

Author:Sam Harris

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.”

Lying Easier Deception Liars Permit Permission Deceiver Third Time Lies Truth Telling Lies

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“What else exhausts like sustained deception?”

Deception

Book:Peace Like a River

Source: Peace Like a River

“Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything.”

Soul Self Stones Warm Lovely Deception Greek Torture Covered Torment Inventor Blanket Self Deception Hades

Book:The Corrections: A Novel

Source: The Corrections: A Novel

“the constant shower of the sun's mane erases the footprints on thin ice do not fear deception for the world lies atop deception ~Toushiro Hitsugaya”

World Lying Sun Constant Ice Deception Showers Erase Footprint Do Not Fear

Author:Tite Kubo

“Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.”

Ifs Stills Dream Hands Eye Joy Lying Hours Attitude Feet Tongue Deception Awake Mourning His Eyes Everybody Lies

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You can’t leak your hidden intentions if you don’t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people.”

“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”

People Thinking Mind Doe Truth Wish Change Freedom Democracy Atheism Integrity Mass Lows Majority Proof Deception Patriotic

Author:Giordano Bruno

“The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.”

Left Community Rooms Mass Institutions Democratic Deception Liberalism Fraud Socialist Marxism Pious Stratagem

Book:Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

“The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.”

Two Self Unique Deception Self Deception

Author:David Byrne

“I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)”

Deception Hormones Cherries Zoey Redbird

Author:P. C. Cast

“It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.”

“A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.”

People Knows World Doe Hands Realizing Differences White Magic Tricks Deception Hats Magician Rabbits Magic Tricks Incredulity Sleight Of Hand

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“Magic things are fond of deceptions.”

Magic Deception

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.”

Want Looks Deception Suspects Consistency

Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.”

People Giving Kind I Can Sometimes Character Mistake Stupid Judging Gay Oneself Graves Deception Deliberate Ingenious

Book:Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions

Source: Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions

“I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?”

Two Self Drink Shots Deception Charm Concrete Seduction Recipes Self Deception Bartender

Book:Faefever: Fever Series

Source: Faefever: Fever Series

“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.”

Mind Self Born Ignorance Duty Temptation Deception Rise Above Owing

Author:Sivananda

“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.”

Inspiration Truth Next Opinion Stronger Majority Assuming Addiction Recovery Deception Instant Minorities Evident Workout Gang Illusory Majority And Minority Majority Opinion

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.”

Said Important Enemy One Thing Messages Understood Adults Army Deception Manipulation Officers Gravity Ender

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

People Ifs Lying Hate Politics Media Careful Newspapers Oppression Journalism African American Deception Propaganda Deceit Manipulation Black People Oppressed Media Control Hajj Stacey

Author:Malcolm X

“How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.”

Said Self Form Highest Notion Deception Poetry Is Poetic Self Deception

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.”

Moments Study Path Greater Serious Hunger Scripture Temptation Deception Abundance Thirst Greater Power Narrow Path Scripture Study

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception”

Deception Cheese Rats Underwear Alleys

Author:Randy Alcorn

“Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.”

Trying Said Matter Helping Eye Humanity Dust Deception Pray Love Eat Pray And Love

Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.”

Young Girl Easy True Love Ridiculous Deception Compliment Predictable Hormones Cherries

Book:House of Night Series

Source: House of Night Series

“Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.”

World May Littles Lying Deception Fake

Book:Brasyl

Source: Brasyl

“The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.”

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“People’s feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people’s eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears.”

People Feelings Eye Deception

Author:Ai Yazawa

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”

Doe Promise Deception

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“"A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart the belief that some god or other speaks through him. It is the greatest deception in all the world and one embraced by kings and lords, while the minor lying thieves on the streets or Calimport and other cities lose their tongues for so attempting to coax the purses of others."”

Ifs Men World Stills Lying Belief Speak Loses Cities Lord Streets Kings Tongue Deception Thieves Minors Inferiors Blades Attempting Purses Impart

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.”

Firsts Moving Difficult Deception Unconscious Liars Sincere Dedicated

Book:Saturday

Source: Saturday

“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.”

Ifs World Believe Doe Self Matter Rounds Deception Narrative Consistent Self Deception

Author:Errol Morris

“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”

Language Born Deception Curse

Book:Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

“Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)”

Pages Shadow Deception

Author:Erin Hunter

“You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.”

Way Country Lying Brain Deception Tolerate Bullets

Author:Imre Kertész

“I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)”

Self Christian Form Universe Worry Accounts Deception Self Deception Anthropomorphism

Author:A. S. Byatt

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