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self-deception
1. The only type of self-deception that is evil is that which deceives
2. the motions? Are you living in self-deception? A
3. Most of the time I spent “studying” was really an exercise in self-deception
4. open to extraordinary self-deception, so that he is ale to accept without
5. 19 True religious worship is not a futile monologue of self-deception
6. You do—you can see their tricks of self-deception, which in no way makes you responsible to educate them
7. Just like the madman who thinks he knows everything, the skeptic has to add a lot of blind faith and self-deception to the mix in order to bake his desired cake
8. Didn’t they know that women talk? Fielding wondered just how much self-deception men could handle
9. The world is a match for self-deception and absolute lies are real tragedy
10. the image of delusion and self-deception
11. What they don’t realize is that this self-deception ultimately leads to worry
12. That is why the sense of Pure Wonder is necessary to avoid self-deception
13. This self-dishonesty, this self-deception…
14. Love, honesty, and courage; are the only aspects of human awareness that can overcome and undo the imbalances of human self-deception, denial, reality, belief, corruption
15. The carrying out of Levin’s plan presented many difficulties; but he struggled on, doing his utmost, and attained a result which, though not what he desired, was enough to enable him, without self-deception, to believe that the attempt was worth the trouble
16. Classical charting, on the other hand, is quite subjective, and invites wishful thinking and self-deception
17. It remembers price levels, which is why horizontal support and resistance lines make sense, but diagonal trendlines are subjective and open to self-deception
18. Where an intermediate stand is taken, the result is usually confusion, clouded thinking, and self-deception
19. The self-deception of the mass speculator must, however, have its element of justification
20. (Whether through hypocrisy or self-deception, brokerage-house customers generally refuse to admit they are merely gambling with ticker quotations and insist upon some ostensible “reason” for their purchases
21. But it is self-deception to tell yourself that you have suffered no shrinkage in value merely because your securities have no quoted market at all
22. Besides humorous and dangerous self-deception, what have we gained? True, we saved a bit of money by selling at a higher price than we would have had our stop-loss order been triggered at the lower price
23. Julie saw Boris’ indecision, and sometimes the thought occurred to her that she was repulsive to him, but her feminine self-deception immediately supplied her with consolation, and she told herself that he was only shy from love
24. It lies in the fact that an historic character like Alexander I, standing on the highest possible pinnacle of human power with the blinding light of history focused influences: the intrigues, flattery, and self-deception inseparable from power; a character who at every moment of his life felt a responsibility for all that was happening in Europe; and not a fictitious but a live character who like every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth- that this character- though not lacking in virtue (the historians do not accuse him of that)- had not the same conception of the welfare of humanity fifty years ago as a present-day professor who from his youth upwards has been occupied with learning: that is, with books and lectures and with taking notes from them
25. Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement
26. Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others
27. The carrying out of Levin's plan presented many difficulties; but he struggled on, doing his utmost, and attained a result which, though not what he desired, was enough to enable him, without self-deception, to believe that the attempt was worth the trouble
28. Will you go again now that she has insulted me, before your eyes, too; turn away from me and lead her away, arm-in-arm? May you be accursed too, for you were the only one I trusted among them all! Go away, Rogojin, I don’t want you,” she continued, blind with fury, and forcing the words out with dry lips and distorted features, evidently not believing a single word of her own tirade, but, at the same time, doing her utmost to prolong the moment of self-deception
29. But as to our claiming our wives as our property, or our sons, our slaves, our horses,—this is pure fiction contradicted by reality, and which only makes those suffer who believe in it; because a wife or a son will never be so subject to my will as my body is; therefore my own body will always remain the only thing I can call my true property; so also money, property,—will never be real property, but only a self-deception and a source of suffering, and it is only my own body which will be my property, that which always obeys me, and is connected with my consciousness
30. Julie saw Borís’ indecision, and sometimes the thought occurred to her that she was repulsive to him, but her feminine self-deception immediately supplied her with consolation, and she told herself that he was only shy from love
31. It lies in the fact that an historic character like Alexander I, standing on the highest possible pinnacle of human power with the blinding light of history focused upon him; a character exposed to those strongest of all influences: the intrigues, flattery, and self-deception inseparable from power; a character who at every moment of his life felt a responsibility for all that was happening in Europe; and not a fictitious but a live character who like every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth—that this character—though not lacking in virtue (the historians do not accuse him of that)—had not the same conception of the welfare of humanity fifty years ago as a present-day professor who from his youth upwards has been occupied with learning: that is, with books and lectures and with taking notes from them
32. And it has reached such proportions that if we were not living in its midst, we could not believe that men could attain such a pitch of self-deception
