People are laziest when they're in denial.

当一个人自欺欺人的时候，就是他最懒的时候。

Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit.

认为药物和酒精是舒缓他们过分敏感内心的必需品，这说法只不过是自欺欺人的惯用伎俩而已。

Never fool yourself into thinking that your success is just your own.

永远不要自欺欺人地认为你的成功只是你自己的。

Leave it to God to have picked the proper occupation for his only creature capable of such self-delusion.

我们还是相信上帝为他创造的唯一能自欺欺人的子民所选择的合适的职业吧。

The kind who lies to himself about being a liar.

自欺欺人的人。

" California is burning while the deniers fight the standards that can help us all."

“加州燃起了熊熊烈火，些自欺欺人的人却要反对能帮助我们所有人的政策标准。”

Yes, the game of make-believe is a simple one.

是的，自欺欺人的游戏很简单。

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he can't distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

自欺欺人的人，听信自己的谎言，到了一定程度，他就无法辨别自己内心或周围的真理，因此失去了对自己和他人的所有尊重。

And all your dreams of the kind of life you're gonna lead one day are nothing more than lies you've told yourself.

而你对未来生活的一切梦想不过是自欺欺人的谎言。

It's just a self-fullfilling of a financial bubble with no link to anything in the real world.

它充其量只是自欺欺人的金融泡沫，与现实世界毫无关联。

Mum, destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.

妈妈，命运只是我们编来自欺欺人的东西，因为我们无法忍受凡事皆为偶然的事实。

From the first day we met, I have been pretending that our age difference doesn't mean anything.

从我们认识的第一天起 我就自欺欺人地认为我们的年龄差距不算什么。

Opportunities for misinterpretation, error, and self-deception abound.

误解、错误和自欺欺人的机会比比皆是。

But this is a case of self-delusion.

但这是一个自欺欺人的例子。

And the lie I was telling myself is I was too busy.

而我自欺欺人的谎言是我太忙了。

Cause I felt like that was like maybe a delusional way of thinking.

因为我觉得可能是一自欺欺人的想法。

'It's no good deceiving yourself, Charlie, ' she said earnestly.

“自欺欺人是没有用的， 查理，” 她诚恳地说。

So don't let people who lie to themselves ruin your day.

所以别让些自欺欺人的人毁了你的一天。

So the book is called Useful Delusions, The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain.

因此，这本书名为《有益的错觉：自欺欺人脑的力量与悖论》。

What if it's a story we tell ourselves?

倘若不过是我们自欺欺人的故事呢？