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“I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?”

World Ideas Feelings Lying Taken Understood Symbols Bottles Milk

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical and maybe even experimental grasp. Brand-new theoretical discoveries about extra dimensions have irreversibly changed how particle physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists now think about the world. The sheer number and pace of discoveries tells us that we've most likely only scratched the surface of the wondrous possibilities that lie in store. Ideas have taken on a life of their own.”

“He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.”

Lying Taken Traps Blackness

Author:Alice Walker

“PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.”

Two Character Lying Found Taken Speech Regard Speakers Superficiality

Book:The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

Source: The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

“Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.”

World Hands Lying Watches Cases Taken Position Wounds This Life Makers Peter Departed Horizontal Pendulums

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water. Just about every word they utter on this subject is a falsehood calculated to deceive, or - in plain English - a lie.”

Lying Causes Water Taken Subjects Global Warming Communist Falsehood Deceiving Fascists Quacks Plain English

Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

“Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.”

World Want Lying Taken Decay Madhouses

Author:Robert Musil

“The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.”

Whole Earth Moving Lying Heaven Stars Taken Middle Position Shapes Distance Size Astronomy Fixed Spheres Cosmology Ratios

Book:Ptolemy's Almagest

Source: Ptolemy's Almagest

“Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?”

Ifs Men Mind May Light Lying Imagination Pleasure Poor Numbers Opinion Taken Doubt Add Vain Melancholy Diamond Pearls Mixtures Flattering Valuation

Book:Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays

“I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it.”

Years Mind Made States Lying Certain Taken Presses Radio Impression Diets Steady Distortion Misled Censored Totalitarian State Falsification

Book:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

“I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.”

People I Can Lying Taken Wounds Handle Journalist Frustration Misrepresentation

Author:Grace Jones

“Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.”

War Lying Taken Violence Solve Phrases

Author:Dennis Prager

“George W. Bush's approval ratings have plummeted as Americans realize that it's not gay marriage that's destroying the country, but rather the president, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and the rest of the gang in the White House. They're the ones who've taken us to war based on lies and have irreparably damaged the nation's integrity.”

War Country Lying House Nations President Realizing White Taken Integrity Gay White House Destroying Approval Gang Gay Marriage Rice Rating Approval Rating

Author:Michelangelo Signorile

“It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive”

Source: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.”

People Men Believe Ends Lying Memories Sin Taken Eternal Opposites Errors Injustice Forgotten Deeds Scales Deceiving Vengeance Oblivion Rectification

Author:Milan Kundera

“I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." Those are bits of advice that I haven't taken, really. I've done the opposite of them, but they have stayed with me.”

Said Done Remember Lying Bits Taken Advice Havens Opposites Never Lie

Author:Michael Sheen

“The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a single expression. If many photographs of a person were taken at different times, perhaps even years apart, their composite would possess that in which a single photograph is deficient.”

Ifs Years Persons Different Lying Artist Taken Expression Concerned Photograph Catching Best Work Inferiority Resemblance Different Times Composites Resemblance Is

Author:Francis Galton

“If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing already exists in my head, then I haven't learned anything. The tension lies between the staging and the unpredictability.”

Ifs Wells Whole Might Lying Taken Too Much Stage Havens Tension Things Change Unpredictability Staging

Author:Justine Kurland

“My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners.”

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Author:Jane Fonda

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