Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Self Deception Quotes
DangerRealitySelf-DeceptionWillful Ignorance We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
AuthenticityFailureIntegritySelf-Deception It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.
LoveRefugeSelf-DeceptionValidation Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
LiesSelf-Deception The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
ExistenceKnowledgePerceptionRealitySelf-Deception We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
ConcealmentContradictionDuplicityFalsehoodSelf-Deception We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
FaultsSelf-awarenessSelf-Deception Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
EscapeSelf-awarenessSelf-DeceptionWork People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
DeceptionRelationshipSelf-DeceptionTrust We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
