John Christopher Quotes

When a wrong thought is told a thousand times and impressed on one’s brain, one starts feeling the falsehood as truth. Similarly if the mind of slave is hammered of slavery, he starts enjoying his slavery

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit, since what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

Ideology gives people the illusion of principles and dignity while making it easier for them to part with them.

We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.

The mind is a funny thing in how it works. Sometimes you have to tell yourself what's really true. If you don't, your mind starts trying to tell you lies.

In my business, my job is to make people believe they are seeing something they're not seeing.

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.