"The lie is a condition of life.












The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
More Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
"Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of t...
"This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies
"The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
"...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.
"It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however lit...