Quotes about lying
lying ideas mathematics
The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects. G. H. Hardy
lying eye science
There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the easiest will soon discover. In some the interest lies very deep, in others comparatively near the surface; but there is not one which is not curious and entertaining.
lying taxi-cabs two
I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."
lying believe math
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.
lying deep-thought achieve
Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
lying drunk may
they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth
lying eye infinite-time
I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.
lying faithful deceit
If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.
lying way facts
For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.
lying facts watches
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.
lying humanity secret
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.
lying forgiving worship
the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying…
lying men bounds
Man is bound to lie about himself
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.
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.