Jim Butcher Quotes

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

We like to be deceived.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

A form of self-delusion.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

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

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

I actually believe in denial.