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Lying Quotes by Simone Weil
- In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social…
- In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps)…
- The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
- There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is…
- The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should…
- When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
- There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
- The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it…
- The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
- To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for…
- There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us,…
More Lying Quotes
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In delay there lies no plenty. — William Shakespeare
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- 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