Quotes with lie-detector

Quotes 241 till 247 of 247.

• People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

  Elias Canetti
  Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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• Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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• There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

  Theodor W. Adorno
  German philosopher, critic and composer (1903 - 1969)
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• We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

  Pablo Picasso
  Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

  Denis Diderot
  French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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• When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• advertisements
• contradiction
• provocative
• understand
• impossible
• convince

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