Quotes about lying
lying men insulted-him
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
lying alive criminal-mind
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
lying creativity knowledge
Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating! Friedrich Nietzsche
lying people drones
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
lying together secrecy
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
lying writing men
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
lying ignorance black
Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
lying cost pay
My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.
lying pay cost
The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us
lying libertarian anarchy
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
lying warrior enemy
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
lying independent men
Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).
lying self dishonesty
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
lying doe common
I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
lying evil language
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
lying monsters states
Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
lying doubt belief
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
lying soul pure-soul
The pure soul is a pure lie.
lying
What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
lying inability truthfulness
The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.
lying people age
The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.
lying opportunity years
It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host. Franz Beckenbauer
lying reality firsts
Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest. Franz Grillparzer
lying embarrassing embarrassment
Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.
lying honey pants
Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants? Frank Zappa
lying doors long
After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby. Jeff Lindsay
lying past reality
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth. Jeanette Winterson
lying healing light
Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are.
lying home views
Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.
lying writing cells
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.
lying home night
When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a map of myself. Invisible to others, but held in the rug, were all the places I had stayed - for a few weeks, for a few months. On the first night anywhere new I liked to lie in bed and look at the rug to remind myself that I had what I needed even though what I had was so little. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you.
lying believe borders
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.
lying fall thinking
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared