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

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

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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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"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 great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

Adolf Hitler, German Criminal

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"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."

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"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."

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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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"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."

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"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

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"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."

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"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."

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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."

"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."

"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

Explore more quotes by Theodor Adorno

"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."

"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."

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

"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."

"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."

"Life has become the ideology of its own absence."

"The joke of our time is the suicide of intention."

"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."

"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."