"A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself."

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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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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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."

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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

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"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."

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"He who matures early lives in anticipation."

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

"A lie never lives to be old."

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

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

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

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"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."

"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Explore more quotes by Theodor Adorno

"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."

"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

"Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic."

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"When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality."

"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest."

"He who matures early lives in anticipation."

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