mental distortion Quotes

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

Crime is a product of a distorted mind.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.

One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.

It's scary, the way your mind can overpower what is real and what is right.

Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

You only have one thing in your mind, and that is your mind; once that's gone, your whole reality is distorted.

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.