Quotes About Deception

Perception is not a window on objective reality. It is an interface that hides objective reality behind a veil of helpful icons.

We encounter a startling "Fitness-Beats-Truth" (FBT) theorem, which states that evolution by natural selection does not favor true perceptions—it routinely drives them to extinction. Instead, natural selection favors perceptions that hide the truth and guide useful action.

If he were any more crooked, you could open wine bottles with him.

This could blow up in everybody's faces, this could be worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-Contra, worse than the little blue dress.

a faked suicide attempt (is) dishonesty

They turned and found themselves facing a bullet head on an ICBM body lumpily stuffed into a black shirt and a brown suit. It was as though King Kong were making a break for it, hoping to smuggle himself back to his island disguised as a human being.

Me había engañado pensando en que Shigeko era diferente, pero no. También ella era la vaca que da un latigazo fulminante e inesperado con la cola para matar a un tábano. Entonces supe que, a partir de ese momento, debería ser tímido incluso con aquella niña.

What is conditional love? Conditional love is an oxymoron. Conditional love is an imposter of love. Conditional love is something other than love, because you cannot conditionalize the un-conditional.

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you. No one can make that promise, because life is all about seasons, and seasons change.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life