"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

Lie, Lies, Nothing, Self, World

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"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

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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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"Weaklings must lie."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

Lie, Man

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

Lawrence Durrell, British Writer

Lie, Guilt, Punishment, Satisfaction

"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."

Ken Kesey, American Author

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"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."

Roger Ebert, American Critic

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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

Lie, Man, Violence

"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."

Edward de Bono, English Psychologist

Lie, Opportunity, Ideas, Waiting

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."

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"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."

Man

"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."

Creation

"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion."

Art

"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."

Fear

"What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?"

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"It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy."

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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."

"Weaklings must lie."

"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."

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

"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."

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"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."

"In art the best is good enough."

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."

"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."

"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion."

"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."

"What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?"

"It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy."