"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."

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"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."

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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

Lie, Consciousness, Potential, Waking

"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

Lie, Man, Violence

"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

Lie, Sickness, Words

"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Lie, Old

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Lie, Lies, Silence

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Lie, Country, State

"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

Lie, Destiny, Fathers, Fatigue

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."

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"People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo."

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"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together."

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"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."

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"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."

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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."

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

"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."

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

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

"A lie never lives to be old."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

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

"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."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

Explore more quotes by Max Eastman

"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."

"People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo."

"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together."

"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."

"A smile is the universal welcome."

"Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully."

"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything."

"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."

"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."