"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

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"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high."

J. D. Hayworth, American Politician

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"The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."

Man

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"

Leadership

"Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise."

Society

"The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person."

Character

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

Old

"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

Man

"A man must get a thing before he can forget it."

Philosophy

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

Resilience

"A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure."

Psychology

"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."

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