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Lying Quotes by George Santayana
- Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
- To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered…
- The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and…
- Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
- Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
- I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
- History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
More Lying Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius