Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The truth is lived, not taught.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

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

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.