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Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Pema Chodron |

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | David Bohm |

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Ayn Rand |

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Alexander Cockburn |

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Saul Bellow |

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | George Orwell |