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| an excerpt from ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'', describing the Phenomenologists }}
{{quote|The desperate effort to deceive others must, therefore, be regarded as, on the whole, an attempt to aid the self in believing a pretension it cannot easily believe because it was itself the author of the deception. If others will only accept what the self cannot quite accept, the self as deceiver is given an ally against the self as deceived.
| Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man}}
{{quote|The self-deceiver does not believe … what he says or he would not be a deceiver. He does believe what he says or he would not be deceived. He both believes and does not believe … or he would not be self-deceived.
|Philip Leon (quoted in Niebuhr, above)}}
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