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Deceiving Ourselves Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If we say that we have no sin,We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin,And so consequently die.Ay, we must die an everlasting death. Christopher Marlowe
Sometimes I think that when we say our honour prevents us from doing this or that we deceive ourselves, and our real motive is vanity. W. Somerset Maugham
He desired her vaguely but without convinction. They walked together. He suddenly realized that she had always been very decent to him. She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love -- first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.... Albert Camus
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code. Carl Jung
George R. R. Martin quote: "I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope... perhaps I..."
I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope... perhaps I wanted to... we all deceive ourselves, when we want to believe. George R. R. Martin
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? Euripides
Oscar Wilde quote: "It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves..."
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Oscar Wilde
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. Carl Sagan
we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue. Jeanette Winterson
Madame Swetchine quote: "We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs..."
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. Madame Swetchine
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. Joan Didion
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. Plato

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