Quotes About Deception

Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions.

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Most people like to live in illusions.

The spiritual consciousness is never deceived

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

The one who has developed a habit of taking a lot of respect from others [relish pride], will get cheated.

A thing or one's eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!

The wisest of the wicked schemes are actually foolish.

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage

It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.