It is easier to speak truth than to hear it.
Lying
To a quite unwreckable Lie,
To a most impeccable Lie!
To a water-tight, fire-proof, angle-iron, sunk-hinge, time-lock, steel-faced Lie!
Not a private hansom Lie,
But a pair-and-brougham Lie,
Not a little-place-at-Tooting, but a country-house-with-shooting
And a ring-fence-deer-park Lie.
—-Kipling
The most disinterested truth-seeker still angles for a world of greater rewards for disinterested truth-seekers.
To be better it is first necessary to pretend to be; and objections to improvement often masquerade as objections to pretense.
No one wants equality except with his betters.
If you think about whether you are genuine, too late.
We are such accomplished liars because we get so much practice on ourselves.
The greater good is evil: the larger truth is a lie.
To listen to people with talent, you might almost believe that there is no such thing.
The stupid delude themselves that anything is possible; the clever, that whatever they cannot do cannot be done.
Optimism is the philosophy of despair.