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“Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.”

Art Pleasure Power Keys Appearance Deception Aesthetic Components Acquisition Pleasures Of Life

Book:The 48 Laws Of Power

Source: The 48 Laws Of Power

“Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.”

Men Mind Atheism Positive Atheism Deception Deceit Falsehood Susceptible Truth And Falsehood

Book:Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.”

Believe Humans I Can I Believe Nature Human Nature Ignorance Illusion Misery Philosopher Deception Folly Hype

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.”

Way Littles Bigs Loses Gains Deception Little Things Big Things Miscellaneous

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth.”

God Today Christian Spiritual Religious Commitment Tests Words Defense Deception Word Of God Refreshing Spiritual Truth

Author:David Jeremiah

“How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.”

Stills Self Order Higher Protection Luxury Deception Sincerity Again And Again Rationality Self Deception Falseness

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object.”

Thinking World Light Science Quality Objects Reflection Accidents Deception Colour Seeming Apparitions

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.”

Men Real Self Able Spirit Path Mankind Development Tragedy Deception Self Deception Tentacles

Book:Alfred Adler: a portrait from life

Source: Alfred Adler: a portrait from life

“The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law.”

Heart Self Law Silence Movement Feminist Deception Islamic Treatment Feminist Movement Inhumane Islamic Law

Author:Caroline Glick

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

World Profit Deception Corporations Imaginary Virtual World

Book:Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Source: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

“Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it”

Art Practice Habit Creating Art Is Deception Creating Art Icarus

Author:Seth Godin

“One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.”

Book:Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy

Source: Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy

“The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.”

Ifs Done Dies Environment Train Hardest Deception Islands Swim Unforgiving Antarctica

Author:Lewis Gordon

“The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.”

Truth Deception Deceived Deceptive

Book:The Words: The Reconstruction of Islamic Belief and Thought

Source: The Words: The Reconstruction of Islamic Belief and Thought

“Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!”

Writing Sometimes Stories Hands Purpose Modern Authority Originals Contrary Innocent Deception Compare Quotations Comets Second Hand

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.”

Ifs Men Causes Lord Praise Deception Unjust Deceitful Bowels

Book:The novels of Muriel Spark

Source: The novels of Muriel Spark

“It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.”

World Eye Difficult Independence Deception Conventions Unconventional

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.”

Deception Deceived Tolerable

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Art lies by its own artifice.”

Art Lying Deception Artifice

Author:Ovid

“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”

Capitalism Deception

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more.”

Audience Effects Performances Deception Cheer Skillful

Book:Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

“The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.”

May Ideas Form Spirit Virtue Produce Depends Illusion Institutions Deception Substance Preserves Passed Away

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

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

Lonely Deception Ephemeral Courtship Frivolous

Book:The company she keeps

Source: The company she keeps

“This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?”

Wonder Failing Feet Gold Intelligent Deception Impulse Destructive Idols Clay Cliche Venice

Author:Mary McCarthy

“To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.”

Knows Feelings Know How Kings Deception Disguise

Author:Cardinal Richelieu

“If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Men Deception

Book:The Odes of Pindar

Source: The Odes of Pindar

“Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.”

Persons Able Evil Seeing Judgment Intention Deception Decency Dormant

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.”

Self Sometimes Tools Deception Self Deception

Book:act one

Source: act one

“Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.”

Deception Cheating Suspicion Suspicious Cheated Cheated On

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.”