We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

And, after all, what is a lie? ‚Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.