Constant Quote by G. I. Gurdjieff

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

“Falseness in life is the secret that makes man's inner self a rare truth; it hides from him although it's obvious to all.”

— Naguib Mahfouz

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

— Mark Twain

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

— Marcel Proust

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When a honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he…

— Harry Frankfurt

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be…

— William Safire

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they…

— Leo Tolstoy