Carl Henry Eckart Quotes

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing

For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average. People at the bottom still think they're outperforming other people.

I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

People see us as no better than we are.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

I don't think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another.

The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego. If I see a button, a T-shirt, that says, 'Yngwie is God,' I just look at it as a complimentary way of people telling me they like me. Although it's very flattering, it doesn't change the way I look at myself.

My motto is, 'You may not be as good as you think you are, but thinking you are is good.'

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.