#yin

You think it’s because they’re lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man’s only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie--you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without first lying fourteen times or so, maybe a hundred and fourteen, and that’s honorable in its way; well, but we can’t even lie with our own minds! Lie to me, but in your own way, and I’ll kiss you for it. Lying in one’s own way is almost better than telling the truth in someone else’s way; in the first case you’re a man, and in the second—no better than a bird! The truth won’t go away, but life can be nailed shut; there are examples. Well, so where are we all now? With regard to science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aspirations, liberalism, reason, experience, and everything, everything, everything, we’re all, without exception, still sitting in the first grade! We like getting by on other people’s reason--we’ve acquired a taste for it! Right? Am I right? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#lying #man #experience

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#chi-ro-jin #head #invisibility #invisible #quotable

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#liberty #spying #surveillance #surveillance-society #technology

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#chess #guys #i #out #playing

Champions keep playing until they get it right. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#champions #get #keep #playing #right

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#lying #success

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#lying #self-deception #truth #time

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lying #trust #trust

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#flying #secret

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heartfelt #shame #sorrow #tears #need