Joseph Agassi

“philosophers have noted that people who habitually deceivefinally fall for their own deceptions. This is the well-knownphenomenon that confidence artists appeal to the willingness oftheir victims to deceive both themselves and others in one andthe same act: The victims are encouraged to deceivethemselves into thinking that they deceive only others whileignoring their own greed and the immorality of the way theychoose to satisfy it. To this Russell added that the same holdstrue for all self -deception:”