"The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie"
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"Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming."
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"The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous."
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"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."
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"A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie."
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"Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals."
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"Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men."
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"Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity."
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"Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies."
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"We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?"
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"What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son."
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""Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price."
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"There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause."
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"Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal."
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"The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies."
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"The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth."
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"A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty."
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"The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it."
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"There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie."
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"One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth."
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