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Lying Quotes by Umberto Eco
- Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies…
- As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the…
- Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
- From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence…
- The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their…
- If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your…
- Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
- Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie,…
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