Quotes About Falseness

Cynicism is enlightened false consciousness. It is that modernized, unhappy consciousness, on which enlightenment has labored both successfully and in vain. It has learned its lessons in enlightenment, but it has not, and probably was not able to, put them into practice. Well-off and miserable at the same time, this consciousness no longer feels affected by any critique of ideology; its falseness is already reflexively buffered.

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

Hay personas tan prudentes que no comen, y otras tan sumisas que piden permiso para hacerlo. Ambas mueren por inanición. La moderación es un atributo admirado por casi todas las culturas y requisito fundamental para garantizar la convivencia y salvaguardar la integridad psicológica de la gente, pero si se hace de ella un supervalor se comienza a transitar peligrosamente por los límites de la falsedad y el bloqueo emocional.

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

Perhaps it is in speaking of our falseness that we can be true.

Every word was a cheat. Every thought and feeling was false. I played the game. Everything I touched, I cheapened.

This is the very false gallop of verses.

I am falser than vows made in wine.

Dear Marie Tussaud, Fake people are everywhere, you do not have to waste wax creating them

You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley....

Spiritual Autolysis—trying to write something true and keeping at it until you do—is the best possible way of identifying and eradicating our falseness because the process of writing minimizes the weaknesses and maximizes the strengths of the intellect. Nothing false can survive illumination by a steady and focused mind.

trumpery. Knew

Era como si todos los ideales y los valores se fundieran bajo el peso del dinero, disolvente universal. Dinero, dinero, dinero. La falsa fungibilidad del dinero, la idea de que se puede comprar el sentido, o la vida.

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

That nothing can be real when marred with so many lies.

I detest people who lie. I can't stand it.

Fake people can be silenced with truth.

Nel sogno c'è sempre qualcosa di assurdo e confuso, non ci si libera mai della vaga sensazione ch'è tutto falso, che un bel momento ci si dovrà svegliare.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.

Nos volvemos efigies tan falsas, que llegamos al punto de no saber ya quiénes somos. Porque, por otra parte, nosotros, que somos efigies falsas, no sabemos lo que somos realmente. El único modo de estar de acuerdo con la vida es estar en desacuerdo con nosotros mismos. Lo absurdo es lo divino.

Two things I can't stand, Haze said, ---a man that ain't true and one that mocks what is.