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Lying Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite…
- Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.
- The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.
- Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only…
- People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity…
- In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man…
- One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only…
- It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
- The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside…
- The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible…
- Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the…
- I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth…
- Anything is better than lies and deceit!
- How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!
- But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it…
- Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but…
- These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never…
- The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions…
- We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees…
- He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which…
- What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power…
- The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.
- We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the…
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