Quotes About Falsehood

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

A reasonable person believes, in short, that each of his beliefs is true and that some of them are false.

Pero no ves que toda vida, toda creación en el campo que sea, todo acto de amor, no es más que una rebeldía contra la extinción, no importa que sea falsa o verdadera, que dé resultados o no?

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

as had the graffiti spray-painted in red on one of the corridor walls: THE CAKE IS A LIE.

Whether an honest performer wishes to convey the truth or whether a dishonest performer wishes to convey a falsehood, both must take care to enliven their performances with appropriate expressions, exclude from their performances expressions that might discredit the impression being fostered, and take care lest the audience impute unintended meanings.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth.

A falsehood can run around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on.

You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.

When ideology has become total through its possession of total power, and has changed from partial truth to totalitarian falsehood, historical thought has been so totally annihilated that history itself, even at the level of the most empirical knowledge, can no longer exist. Totalitarian bureaucratic society lives in a perpetual present in which whatever has previously happened is determined solely by its police.

After seeing it work for so long, I began to perceive Charlie's charm as a method of robbing houses by persuading the owners to invite you in and take their possessions. I was in no doubt: it was robbery; there were objects of yours he wanted. And he took them. It was false and manipulative and I admired it tremendously.

Under normal circumstances the liar is defeated by reality, for which there is no substitute; no matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough, even if he enlists the help of computers, to cover the immensity of factuality.

I kept hearing that better to have loved and lost bullshit. Another falsehood. Trust me, it is not better. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down

Tinsel town is full of liars, show-offs and spineless hypocrites.

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.