Quotes on Lying Men

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass consumption of hypnotic mechanized vulgarity, the need to confront man with the reality of his situation is greater than ever. For the dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its senselessness; to accept it freely, without fear, without illusions - and to laugh at it.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.