Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
The first and fundamental resistance is that of the spirit. It means resisting the intimidation of any lie asserted as truth, the contagion of any collective intoxication.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer... And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
The mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken with the false colors than truth.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Success has always been a great liar.
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
One can say that to some extent fascism has added a new variation to the old art of lying — the most devilish variation — that of lying the truth.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
