And I return to the coldness of this defying human nature, to the impertinence with which the losers of the Sacred Self clime to our sorts of social positions thinking that there they will find their peace, but they are completely wrong. The more they climb, the more they will be confused and miserable because happiness is a mirage of this defying world. No matter how much you gain and what social positions you would had, they are all vanity of the vanities, they are all a smoke caught in our fists or a cry embraced, because they all become immediately a normality and then a boring thus completing the misery, but especially the vanity that surrounds this world where everything is built to fall, where everything is an Illusion of our Life, where the true meaning is the nonsense, and the true Truth is precisely the Untruth. Then what is better for man Is it to kill himself
Quotes about untruth (16 Quotes)
George Freeman, the Times Co.'s assistant general counsel, met with the Washington bureau last week to address staff complaints. There was so much rumor and untruth and speculation going around, ... I wouldn't characterize it as people being unhappy. People had a lot of questions and concerns. I hope to some degree I assuaged the concerns.
They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires.
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
Truth has no fear Untruth shivers at every shadow.
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.
Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
It was a two-second call. There was no extended conversation. I don't understand the need to tell an untruth when you have already lost.
Every truth is true only up to a point. Beyond that, by way of counter-point, it becomes untruth.
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha