Quotes About Deception

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

Reason in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

the lie is a condition of life.

inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.

What has shaken me is not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you.

Knowledge kills action, for action requires a state of being in which we are covered with the veil of illusion.

good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good

Terribleness is part of greatness: let us not deceive ourselves.

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.

All my human relationships have to do with a mask of me, and I must perpetually be the victim of living a completely hidden life.