"Sanity is a cozy lie."

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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

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

Lawrence Durrell, British Writer

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"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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"Lying can never save us from another lie."

Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakian Leader

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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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"Sanity is a cozy lie."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."

Evan Esar, American Writer

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

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"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."

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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

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"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."

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"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

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"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."

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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."

"Lying can never save us from another lie."

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

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."

Explore more quotes by Susan Sontag

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

"Books are funny little portable pieces of thought."

"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."