Fictitious Quotes

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If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious. — E. M. Forster
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world… — Mark Twain
I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I… — Bob Dylan
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it. — Barbara Mertz
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes… — Michel Foucault
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God,… — John Calvin
He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that… — Kate Chopin
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been… — Bill Watterson
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what weâ€™re talking… — David Hume
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the… — George Bernard Shaw
O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded! — William Gilbert
One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud. — Bill Ackman
If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious… — Bill Ackman
But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we… — Jim McKay
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray
For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labor, which is what gives money its… — Adolf Hitler
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings… — John Adams

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