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"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling." The irony of Robert Pirsig touches on the strange encounter of self-deception. I know the truth and you do not; I intentionally hide the truth from you—this is the lie. But with this understanding of deception, how then, is self-deception possible? Does one know the truth about something and then, simultaneously, hide the truth from one's self? How could this be: what makes it possible for a single person to be both deceived and deceiver? Nietzsche makes self-deception a reality through the error of truth.
Like Pirsig's puzzling drive for truth, it is Nietzsche's drive for truth that actually facilitates self-deception. In On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Nietzsche's treatment of truth supports this dichotomy of belief and actually breaks down the classical definition of the lie. In doing so, self-deception becomes possible and......

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