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History is the lies of the victors, — Julian Barnes

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. — Joan Didion

As with all gut feelings, only time will tell whether this it is pathetic self-delusion. — Neal Stephenson

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history. — Bryant McGill

There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion. — Anthony Marra

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated. — Harold Holzer

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless. — John Steinbeck

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing. — Howard Pyle

Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them. — Amy Tan

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance. — Al Goldstein

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. — Brandon Sanderson

The human capacity for self-delusion is limitless — Sarah Fine

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you. — Shannon L. Alder

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — T.H. White

Necessity is the mother of self-delusion. — Hugh Laurie

You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion. — Douglas Preston

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion. — H.L. Mencken

Self-Evaluation is healthy and constructive. Denial and self-delusion is DESTRUCTIVE. — Michelle Cook-Hall

He wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion ... — John Le Carre

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else! — Daniel Day-Lewis

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment. — Dogen

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. — Flannery O'Connor

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention. — Genevieve Ross

The worst deluded are the self-deluded. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. — Paul Sweeney

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion. — Stefan Molyneux

Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others. — Margaret Atwood

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are. — Alain De Botton

The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth. — Frank Turek

The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion. — Gina Greenlee

Gefarhrgeist excelled at convincing themselves. It was their greatest strength and most terrible weakness. — Michael R. Fletcher

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion. — Alexander Theroux

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. — Michael Crichton

I am not holier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest deludes himself. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it. — William Moyers

I believe nothing. Belief is intellectual surrender; "faith" a state of willed self-delusion. — Barbara Ehrenreich

To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away. — Jay Michaelson

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit. — Sophie Kinsella

A form of self-delusion. — Elbert Hubbard

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion. — Nick Harkaway

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan

The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead

Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored. — Paul Hoffman

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. — Richard Feynman

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted. — Criss Jami

Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves. — Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is. — Douglas Coupland

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy. — Stefan Molyneux

This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light. — Frederick Lenz

Oh, wait a minute, I was supposed to be cutting back on the self-delusion, wasn't I? Whoops. — Jason Krumbine

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in. — Judith Kelman

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all. — Jodi Picoult

Humans see what they want to see. — Rick Riordan

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up. — Rafi Zabor

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt. — Wally Lamb

I seek the truth ... it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius

Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence. — Jack Weatherford

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium — John Ralston Saul

You must understand the immense power of self-serving delusion." I — Jeremy Robert Johnson

I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion. — Glenn Reynolds

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. — Daniel S. Greenberg

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it. — Shannon L. Alder

The vain man does not think he is vain. — Gilbert Ryle

Johnson was insulated from reality by his hopes and dreams. — Robert A. Caro