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“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”

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Author:Redd Foxx

“Suppose whether or not someone tells me a lie depends only on whether he wants to, but he is morally indifferent, he doesn't care much about the truth or about me, and his self interest, which he worships, tells him to lie, and so it comes about that given his psychology, it is a forgone conclusion that he will lie to me. I think in this case he is still blameworthy, and that implies, among other things, that he did something he ought not do.”

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Author:Nomy Arpaly

“All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.”

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Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel

“Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).”

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Book:Twilight of the Idols

Source: Twilight of the Idols

“There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological. To live the life of spontaneity, truth, love, beauty is to live in heaven. To live the life of hypocrisy, lies, compromises,to live according to others, is to live in hell. To live in freedom is heaven, and to live in subjection is hell.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.”

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Author:Nevill Francis Mott

“I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.”

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Author:River Phoenix

“The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.”

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Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

“MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.”

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Author:Paul Ekman

“The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.”

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Author:Carl Gustav Carus

“Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.”

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Book:The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West