Deception Quotes - Page 6

• Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Eye, Deceit

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.222

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• The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Community, Rooms, Institutions

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Dream, Art, Distance

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• In war, bullets; in love, deceptions kill us.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, War, Bullets

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• From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Sex, Military, War

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book VI, Chapter 21), circa 170.

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• For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Truth, Reality, Empathy

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• We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Nature, Science, Tests

  1789 Traiteele mentaire de la chimie ('Elements of Chemistr y', translated by Robert Kerr).

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• If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Eye, Mind

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.27

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• A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

  Edgar Degas

  Work Out, Crime, Cunning

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• My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Pencils, Foils

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• Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Motivational, Trust, Nature

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• It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deceiving, Easy

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• From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Military, Home, America

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.

  Wendy Beckett

  Illustration, May, Brilliant

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• No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Happiness, Reality

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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• It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Self, May

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• People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Religious, Self, Class

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.

  Margaret Drabble

  Journey, May, Detours

  Margaret Drabble (2012). “The Needle's Eye”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Karma, Individual Differences, Teach

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• Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

  Robert Genn

  Facts, Needs, Painting

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• What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

  Michelangelo

  Struggle, Sweat, Done

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• Art lies by its own artifice.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Artifice

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• My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

  Gerhard Richter

  Beautiful, Suggestions, Paradise

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.67, The Museum of Modern Art

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• We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lonely, Thinking, Self

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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