self-delusion|self delusion in English

deceiving oneself deliberately

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1. I suppose self-delusion is a gift of natural selection as well.

2. To talk of planning and decision making is, to these people, to indulge in self-delusion.

3. Conceit is the delusion that our experiences ARE ourselves, and that our self has boundaries and substance and continuity

4. Acenesthesia (general elementary somatopsychosis, asomatognosia) is a kind of: psychopathology » delusion » nihilistic delusion; psychopathology » symptom » Behavioral and psychological symptom of Dementia » delusion » nihilistic delusion; psychopathology » nihilistic delusion;

5. What a delusion!

6. Yet somehow the delusion has taken hold that a commitment to democratic self-rule means coaxing apathetic numbskulls into voting.

7. The Rabari suffered no such delusion.

8. That it failed to do so-refused to do so-is testimony to the human capacity for evasion and self-delusion.

9. This was not optimism, it was delusion.

10. You're clinging to the delusion.

11. Your hopes of promotion are a mere delusion.

12. These paragons of narcissism, misanthropy and delusion now have a shrine of their own, at tweetingtoohard.com (tagline: "Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.").

13. Love can be nothing but a delusion.

14. He is under the delusion that he is Napoleon.

15. His arguments sound convincing but they're based on delusion.

16. THE GOD DELUSION is an irreverent book.

17. Instruction from a tree is an utter delusion.

18. And wisdom usually follows illusion, delusion, and disillusion.

19. 28 His arguments sound convincing but they're based on delusion.

20. And both are gripped by the same dogmatic delusion.

21. Obduracy , illusion and delusion of one can be terrible.

22. 15 They are a delusion,* a work of mockery.

23. Belief in utopian progress is increasingly seen as a delusion.

24. Bloodguilt I've lost myself in the cryptic abyss of delusion

25. 7 His arguments sound convincing but they're based on delusion.