“We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.” KnowsMenNeedsLyingSubjectsFameSpeciesInventionGrantedLiarsCredulity Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.” KindMatterLyingEvilDifferencesGenerationsConditionsSubjectsCircumstancesDiversityInfinitePropertySpeciesGood And EvilDecayEntitySubject MatterLife DeathAlterations Author:Giordano Bruno
“Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?” TwoLyingDesireGrowsSidesSpeciesNakedAdmireBreastsAdmiration Book:Slow Man Source: Slow Man
“As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.” PersonsReasonLyingBitsPowerfulCareersTechnologySubjectsSpeciesScience And TechnologyPrimatesPowerful Person Author:Ann Druyan
“We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.” MadeTwoBodyLyingNamesGroupsIndiaSpeciesAncientOrganismsAboriginalGuildsAncient India Author:Bill Mollison
“One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.” MenReasonUseShowsLyingUnderstandingAnimalWonderGenerationsTalentSonPrideDiscoveryPrejudiceRegardInstinctSpeciesFacultyHumankindWiserPreservationCompassDeprivedConfinedSkepticalBrutesContinuance Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.” LoveBelieveWholeWisdomMightLyingHopeWishKnowledgeConceptsUniversalSpeciesWelfareUniversal LoveSelfish Gene Author:Richard Dawkins