"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."

Lie, Lies, Opinion

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"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."

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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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"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 cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."

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"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."

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"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."

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"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."

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"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."

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"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."

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"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."

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"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."

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"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."

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"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."

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