"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."

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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

Lie, Man

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

Lawrence Durrell, British Writer

Lie, Guilt, Punishment, Satisfaction

"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

Lie, Emotions, Intellect, May

"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

Lie, Man, Violence

"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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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Dissent

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

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"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

Trust

"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."

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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

Gratitude

"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."

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"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."

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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 Eric Hoffer

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."

"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."