Lying Quotes - Page 301

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a 'matter-of-fact' habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. Without 'ethical culture' there is no salvation for humanity.

The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.

In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.

Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.