Self Delusion Quotes

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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooli

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Richard P. Feynman

Science Knowledge Foolishness Self Delusion Rationalism

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind.

Christopher Hitchens

Life Age History Battles Hegel Reminiscence Self Delusion Self Persuasion William Morris