Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Lying Quotes, Wrestling 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”?

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

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There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.

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By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

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The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

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In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

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A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Lying Quotes , Needs Quotes

The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Confused Quotes , Lying Quotes

Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.

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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

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For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.

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Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

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

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If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

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Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

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How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.

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