Falling in love can be a significant form of…
Falling in love can be a significant form of self-deception. It is a willingness to have all the facts about someone when you really don't. The same can be said about opinions. Love. Opinion. Value. Self-deception.
— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Sick Souls, Healthy Minds- How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
In the book
Stay alert, then, to the bias and self-deception baked into your own judgments. Some of it is almost sweet — falling in love is itself a willing self-deception, a happy agreement to ignore certain facts — and some of it is brutal: because you know your own weak spots better than anyone alive, the attacks you launch at yourself land with deadly accuracy. From it grow the familiar distortions. — The Mind in the Cockpit