A Quote by Anthony de Mello

The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

Anthony de Mello

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Both Cannot Delude False Feigning Himself Mystic Others Sleeper Unfortunately

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Anthony de Mello
Indian - Priest
September 4, 1931 - June 2, 1987

Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself - not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself.

George T. Conway III

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.

Kinky Friedman

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

William Inge

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

David Frum

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

Mahatma Gandhi

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

John Owen

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain.

Jonathan Swift

In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.

Frederick Lenz

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

Alice Miller

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.