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Letter "D" » deception
«It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.»
«it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.»
«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.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
deception, philosophers, protesting
«Give up what appears to be doubtful for what is certain. Truth brings peace of mind, and deception doubt.»
«Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
bewilder, bewildered, considerable, deceived, deception, For any, multitude, period
«People who indulge in the acts of deception and debauchery are devoid of success. »
«Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
deceived, deception, habitual, uninterrupted
«Men still have to be governed by deception.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| Keywords:
deception
«Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
deception, nationalism, power hunger, self-deception, tempered
«People wear all sorts of costumes and wander all around, but in their hearts and minds, they practice deception. They do not attain the Mansion of the Lord's Presence, and after death, they sink into manure.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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after death, costumes, deception, mansion, manure, presence of mind, The Mansion, wander
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