William Stekel Quotes

This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy's balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

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.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.