Quotes About Deception

There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.

When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complain when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

Alle bedro seg selv, og ingen ville innrømme det. Men da jeg visste dette og innrømmet at sikkerlig jeg også bedro meg selv, så var altså jeg iallfall ingen selvbedrager.

I think I see it." I hoped I was looking in the right place. Constellations had always seemed like a cruel joke to me. How could someone take a few dots in the sky, turn them into an elaborate picture, and expect everyone to share their delusion?

La soga parecía tranquila cuando dormía sobre la mesa o en el suelo.Nadie la hubiera creído capaz de ahorcar a nadie.

aAlina Cerunda was pretty despite her seventy years. Anyone who says she wasn't is a liar. However, old people always look like they're in disguise, and that ruins everything.

Talking to yourself is the last subterfuge.

Other reasons have been postulated for why Neanderthals died out, but my contention is that the combination of the new Systemizing Mechanism, enabling complex tool-making, and the Empathy Circuit, enabling complex social interaction and deception, led Homo sapiens to become unrivaled.

Consciousness is a story that we tell ourselves. But what if that story is a lie?

His doubts recall Benford's Law, a theory about the frequency with which digits will appear in data. One implication of this law is that datasets with lots of zeroes at the end often turn out to be fraudulent.

Sabes qué es lo peor que te puede pasar? Que no puedas confiar en la persona que más amas en el mundo

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?

God does so love to make a man break a promise.

Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face.

As if we'd fall for an obvious trap like that," said Happy. "We're not going to fall for an obvious trap like that, are we? Oh shit, we are. I want to go home.

To show a mask and mirror to the world, and never let them see you're hurting.

Most of my relatives could start a fight in an empty room and then lie about who won.

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?

I went to a house that was not a house. I opened a door that was not a door. And what I saw, I saw.

obtain one's objective.' As Stalin later told Molotov, 'Truth is protected by a battalion of lies.

I don't see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.