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Lying Quotes by Walter Benjamin
- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium…
- He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
- Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly.…
- Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange…
- These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
More Lying Quotes
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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