Blaise Pascal Quotes

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

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.

Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.

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

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

A form of self-delusion.

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.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

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

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

The world loves to be deceived.

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!

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

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

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.