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Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions.
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.
Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a myth, a great deception.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.
When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.
When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
Jack and Jill ran up the hill, both for a little fun. Jack's plan was deception while Jill sought affection. And Jack wouldn't quit till he won.
Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.
All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
Any false religion ultimately is a deception of Satan, to try and keep people from the only way to Heaven, which is through faith in Jesus Christ.
the constant shower of the sun's mane erases the footprints on thin ice do not fear deception for the world lies atop deception ~Toushiro Hitsugaya
I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!
If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken, not stirred?
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.
All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate.
Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance.
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.