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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.

To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception is not designed it is not lying. But if you design to make an impression contrary to the naked truth, you lie.

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We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

When your art fails, make better art.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

...Why are all these masks winking?" Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. "One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more.

With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

¿Acaso hay algo en la vida que decepcione tanto como lograr lo que se quiere?

You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, "That is politics; nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones.

Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.

You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago

A common phrase: I was deceived; an uncommon one: I am deceived.

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

Actually, all the life we keep deceiving eachother. Because, life is too short to hate someone.