“The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.” GivingBelieveDoneLyingPossibilityMoralityGiving UpEvidenceFoundationPretendingPropositions Book:Collected essays Source: Collected essays
“Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.” WayRealLyingInterestingInformationPretendingWikipedia Author:Nick Kroll
“It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.” IfsThinkingFeelsShouldLyingBoysHonestLosingMoodLoserPretendingFormulasShould IFormula 1 Author:Sebastian Vettel
“Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.” MenLyingChristianityTeachAtheismWidePretendingPassages Author:Benjamin Stillingfleet
“Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.” ThinkingArtSelfAgeFormLyingTermSupportGenerationsGroupsConditionsIdentityBirthFairsPressureJewPunishmentPassingFamiliarPassingsTemptationOrganizedPretendingComing OutClosetsEscapingAnti SemitismAgeism Author:Gloria Steinem