George Santayana Quotes About Lying
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Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.
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To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered what they had heard about astronomy, and the great size and distance and possible habitation of those orbs. ... [We] persuade ourselves that the power of the starry heavens lies in the suggestion of astronomical facts.
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In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.
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Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
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Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
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Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
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