personal delusion Quotes

All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces. (a servant in the House of Black and White)

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

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

We are our own aptest deceiver.

The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

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.

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.