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  • The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Lying Quotes , Men Quotes
  • It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Lying Quotes , Moving Quotes
  • We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Lying Quotes , Wrestling Quotes
  • Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Lying Quotes , Way Quotes