"One can lie with the mouth, but..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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“Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.”
“He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.”
“But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.”
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“Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables”
“Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.”
“Science can only state what is, not what should be.”
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“In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.”
“The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.”
“I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.”