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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. -
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The most insidious deception in human history is the lie that says, “God is against you.” -
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At some point in childhood we all make the powerful discovery that we can manipulate the truth about ourselves. -
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. -
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Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecut... -
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We will often stop at nothing to avoid cognitive dissonance. We will twist logic, bend reason, conveniently forget facts, invent new stories, even destroy relationships—all in the name of preserving o... -
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” -
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To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But n... -
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It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. -
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It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. -
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Our goodness is our biggest self-delusion, and all of us seem to be living with it. -
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. -
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. -
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -
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The greatest of all illusions is the illusion of familiarity. -
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The ear is sometimes deceived in hearing sounds, which are only imaginary; the eye, too, sees things in motion, which in reality are at rest; the sense of smell alone is not deceived. -
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He wonders if he’s lying. If he is, he is hung in the middle of nowhere, and the thought hollows him. -
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception. -
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Evading self-acknowledgment of our faults enables us to avoid painful moral emotions: guilt and remorse for harming others; shame for betraying your own ideals; self-contempt for not meeting even our ... -
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. -
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. -
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. -
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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. -
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Our propensity to deceive ourselves about our place and purpose makes it so very difficult to see the truth of our lives, to understand the meaning of our moment in history and our responsibility to i... -
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. -
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We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves. -
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Our race would not have gotten far, Had we not learned to bluff it out And look more certain than we are Of what our motion is about. -
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[The flattery of others] is narcotic and addictive. It preys on two desperate and inescapable desires; to be thought well of by others and to think well of ourselves … We desire and need approbation s... -
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My experience is what I agree to attend to.
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