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Whatever you do don't let anybody talk you into doing something about the way you look ever.
— John Casablancas
The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of Being, and this requires us to *work out the methodological structure of ontological-transcendental differentiation*. In early antiquity it was already seen that Being and its attributes in a certain way underlie beings and precede them and so are *a proteron*, an earlier. The term denoting this character by which Being precedes beings is the expression *a priori*, *apriority*, being earlier or prior. As *a priori*, Being is earlier than beings. The meaning of this *a priori*, the sense of the earlier and its possibility, has never been cleared up. The question has not even once been raised as to why the determinations of Being and Being itself must have this character of priority and how such priority is possible. To be earlier is a determination of time, but it does not pertain to the temporal order of the time that we measure by the clock; rather, it is an earlier that belongs to the "inverted world." Therefore, this earlier which characterises Being is taken by the popular understanding to be the later. Only the interpretation of Being by way of temporality can make clear why and how this feature of being earlier, apriority, goes together with Being. The *a priori* character of Being and of all the structures of Being accordingly calls for a specific kind of approach and way of apprehending Being―*a priori cognition*.The basic components of *a priori* cognition constitute what we call *phenomenology*. Phenomenology is the name for the method of ontology, that is, of scientific philosophy. Rightly conceived, phenomenology is the concept of a method. It is therefore precluded from the start that phenomenology should pronounce any theses about Being which have specific content, thus adopting a so-called standpoint." ―Martin Heidegger, from_The Basic Problems of Phenomenology_
— Martin Heidegger
Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological propositions are Temporal propositions. It is only because ontological propositions are Temporal propositions that they can and must be *a priori propositions*. It is only because ontology is a Temporal science that something like the *a priori* appears in it. *A priori* means "from the earlier" or "the earlier." "*Earlier*" is patently a *time-determination*. If we have been observant, it must have occurred to us that in our explications we employed no word more frequently than the expression "already." It "already antecedently" lies at the ground: "it must always already be understood beforehand": where beings are encountered, Being has "already beforehand" been projected. In using all of these temporal, really Temporal, terms we have in mind something that the tradition since Plato calls the *a priori*, even if it may not use the very term itself. In the preface to his *Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft [Metaphysical principles of natural science], Kant says: "Now to cognize something *a priori* means to cognize it from its mere possibility." Consequently, *a priori* means that which makes beings as beings possible in *what* and *how* they are. But why is this possibility labeled by the term "earlier"? Obviously not because we recognize it earlier than beings. For what we experience first and foremost is beings, that which is; we recognize Being only later or maybe even not at all. This time-determination "earlier" cannot refer to the temporal order given by the common concept of time in the sense of intratemporality. On the other hand, it cannot be denied that a time determination is present in the concept of the *a priori*, the earlier. But, because it is not seen how the interpretation of Being necessarily occurs in the horizon of time, the effort has to be made to explain away the time determination by means of the *a priori*. Some go so far as to say that the *a priori*―the essentialities, the determination of beings in their Being―is extratemporal, supratemporal, timeless. That which does the enabling, the possibilities are characterized by a time-determination, the earlier, because in this *a priori* nothing of time is supposed to be present, hence *locus a non lucendo*? Believe it if you wish."―from_The Basic Problems of Phenomenology_
— Martin Heidegger
On the other hand, it is also characteristic of the state of philosophical inquiry today and has been for a long time that, while there has been extensive controversy about whether or not the *a priori* can be known, it has never occurred to the protagonists to ask first what could really have been meant by the fact that a time-determination turns up here and why it must turn up at all. To be sure, as long as we orient ourselves toward the common concept of time we are at an impasse, and negatively it is no less than consistent to deny dogmatically that the *a priori* has anything to do with time. However, time in the sense commonly understood, which is our topic here, is indeed only one derivative, even if legitimate, of the original time, on which the Dasein's ontological constitution is based. *It is only by means of the Temporality of the understanding of Being that it can be explained why the ontological determinations of Being have the character of apriority*. We shall attempt to sketch this briefly, as far as it permits of being done along general lines.We have just seen that all comportment toward beings already understands Being, and not just incidentally: Being must necessarily be understood precursorily (pre-cecently). The possibility of comportment toward beings demands a precursory understanding of Being, and the possibility of the understanding of Being demands in its turn a precursory projection upon time. But where is the final stage of this demand for ever further precursory conditions? It is temporality itself as the basic constitution of the Dasein. Temporality, due to its horizonal-ecstatic nature, makes possible *at once* the understanding of Being and comportment toward beings; therefore, that which does the enabling as well as the enablings themselves, that is, the possibilities in the Kantian sense, are "temporal," that is to say, Temporal, in their specific interconnection. Because the original determinant of possibility, the origin of possibility itself, is time, time temporalizes itself as the absolutely earliest. *Time is earlier than any possible earlier* of whatever sort, because it is the basic condition for an earlier as such. And because time as the source of all enablings (possibilities) is the earliest, all possibilities as such in their possibility-making function have the character of the earlier. That is to say, they are *a priori*. But, from the fact that time is the earliest in the sense of being the possibility of every earlier and of every *a priori* foundational ordering, it does not follow that time is ontically the first being; nor does it follow that time is forever and eternal, quite apart from the impropriety of calling time a being at all.” ―from_The Basic Problems of Phenomenology_
— Martin Heidegger
As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in the approach to Being as such and the elaboration of its structures. We call this method of ontology *phenomenology*. In more precise language, phenomenological investigation is explicit effort applied to the method of ontology. However, such endeavors, their success or failure, depend primarily, in accordance with our discussion, on how far phenomenology has assured for itself the object of philosophy―how far, in accordance with its own principle, it is unbiased enough in the face of what the things themselves demand. We cannot now enter any further into the essential and fundamental constituent parts of this method. In fact, we have applied it constantly. What we would have to do would be merely to go over the course already pursued, but now with explicit reflection on it. But what is most essential is first of all to have traversed the whole path once, so as, for one thing, to learn to wonder scientifically about the mystery of things and, for another, to banish all illusions, which settle down and nest with particular stubbornness precisely in philosophy.There is no such thing as *the one* phenomenology, and if there could be such a thing it would never become anything like a philosophical technique. For implicit in the essential nature of all genuine method as a path toward the disclosure of objects is the tendency to order itself always toward that which it itself discloses. When a method is genuine and provides access to the objects, it is precisely then that the progress made by following it and the growing originality of the disclosure will cause the very method that was used to become necessarily obsolete. The only thing that is truly new in science and in philosophy is the genuine questioning and struggle with things which is at the service of this questioning." ―from_The Basic Problems of Phenomenology_
— Martin Heidegger
Words are never enough!
— Anthony T. Hincks
If you blend in, you don't stand out.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Man's only hope lies in "final redemption from the misery of volition and existence into the painlessness of non-being and non-willing." No mortal may quit the task of life, but each must do his part to hasten the time when in the major portion of the human race the activity of the unconscious shall be ruled by intelligence, and this stage reached, in the simultaneous action of many persons volition will resolve upon its own non-continuance, and thus idea and will be once more reunited in the Absolute.
— Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann
How can I be myself, when others expect me to be someone else?
— Anthony T. Hincks
The whole idea of being here is to ask everything...
— Deyth Banger
Having been is the surest kind of being.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.
— George Sheehan
I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together.
— Anthony T. Hincks
So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.
— Charles Bukowski
All too often it's easier to be someone else than just being yourself.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands
— Jeffrey Fry
It is in the doing that makes the being worthwhile.
— Jeffrey Fry
Being always transcends appearance---that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simply no longer matter.
— William Paul Young, The Shack
Love must become the essence of our being
— Sunday Adelaja
Don't like me for what I am.Just like me for who I am.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Therefore, perception, which I count as the most wonderful of instruments, has just as little reality as that of my poor senses. However I might conceive of matter, it is always something different from what I understood it to be. But it is not only that I can never completely perceive the essence of matter, but also it's that it has no being. Spray water on a hot oven and it is instantaneously vaporized, if I throw a lump of sugar into a cup of tea it melts. If I break the cup I'm drinking out of, I'll have nothing but shards - but no longer a cup. If, however, being can be turned into not-being with the flip of the wrist, then it is not worth talking about it as being. Not-being, death, is the real essence of all matter, life is only a negation of this essence for an infinitely short span of time. But the thought of the drop of water, or the lump of sugar remains immutable, it can never be broken, vaporated, or melted. So isn't this thought to be spoken of with much greater right as reality, than fluctuating material is? "From The Diary Of An Orange Tree
— Hanns Heinz Ewers, Nachtmahr: Strange Tales
I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing.
— Jay Woodman
Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah’k’hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example.
— Christina Engela, Black Sunrise
Boring is a syndrome of being to simple.
— Deyth Banger
12 Hours on the computer... sounds like I am vip... few people stay on computer so long or not big %.
— Deyth Banger
One lives in the very present moment
—  lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.
No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through day or night, cathedral or caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds.
— Hermann Hesse
In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.
— Gregory Maguire, After Alice
For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Authenticity is about what makes you, you. It is an expression of your beingness.
— Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.
— Abraham H. Maslow
A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the other hand, sometimes one remembers well the name, without knowing if anything of the being, whose name it was, survives in these pages.
— Marcel Proust, Time Regained
Not every ROAD we come across in our daily life is one we have to take. Sometimes just standing still and being, can BE the best move we ever make.﻿
— Angie karan
Split up means being in state of being an a victim which can be killed easy.
— Deyth Banger
All jobs must be respected, because they are being done unto God.
— Sunday Adelaja
I exist no more, every moment a new being lives inside me.
— Suman Pokhrel
The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.
— J.R. Rim
Lo shoots a withering glare his way. "Your our goddamn publicist, not the king of the caste, so stop acting like you have authority to banish my brother into another room.
— Krista Ritchie, Fuel the Fire
We are beginning to play with ideas of ecology, and although we immediately trivialize these into commerce or politics, there is at least an impulse still in the human breast to unify and thereby sanctify the total natural world, of which we are. ... There have been, and still are, in the world many different and even contrasting epistemologies which have been alike in stressing an ultimate unity, and, although this is less sure, which have also stressed the notion that ultimate unity is aesthetic. The uniformity of these views gives hope that perhaps the great authority of quantitative science may be insufficient to deny an ultimate unifying beauty. I hold to the presupposition that our loss of the sense of aesthetic unity was, quite simply, an epistemological mistake.
— Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature
Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
Being here is such a contrast to where I’d otherwise be.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
I am sustained by Being Necessary.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
Life offers many reasons to be alive. Death offers none.
— Aditya Ajmera
Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.
— Charlotte Joko Beck
With the act of marriage the situation frequently changes fundamentally. The marriage contract gives each partner the exclusive possession of the other's bo dy, feelings, and care. Nobody has to be won over any more, because love has become something one has, a property. The two cease to make the effort to be lovable and to produce love, hence they become boring, and hence their beauty disappears. They are disappointed and puzzled. Are they not the same persons any more? With the act of marriage the situation frequently changes fundamentally. The marriage contract gives each partner the exclusive possession of the other's body, feelings, and care. Nobody has to be won over any more, because love has become something one has, a property. The two cease to make the effort to be lovable and to produce love, hence they become boring, and hence their beauty disappears. They are disappointed and puzzled. Are they not the same persons any more? Did they make a mistake in the first place? Each usually seeks the cause of the change in the other and feels defrauded. What they do not see is that they no longer are the same people they were when they were in love with each other; that the error that one can have love has led them to cease loving. Now, instead of loving each other, they settle for owning together what they have: money , social standing, a home, children. Thus, in some cases, the marriage initiated on the basis of love becomes transformed into a friendly ownership, a corporation in which the two egotism are pooled into one: that of the "family.Did they make a mistake in the first place? Each usually seeks the cause of the change in the other and feels defrauded.What they do not see is that they no longer are the same people they were when they were in love with each other; that the error that one can have love has led them to cease loving. Now, instead of loving each other, they settle for owning together what they have: money , social standing, a home, children. Thus, in some cases, the marriage initiated on the basis of love becomes transformed into a friendly ownership, a corporation in which the two egotism are pooled into one: that of the "family
— Erich Frommh Fromm
What we are now, we continue to be.
— Peter Santos, Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook
If You Want to Learn Anything About Being Human , Make a Friendship With New Born Child .
— Sushil Singh
Man is not to direct or to be directed anymore than a tree or a cloud or a stoneMan is not to rule or be ruled anymore than a faith or a truth or a loveMan is not to doubt or to be doubted anymore than a wave or a seed or a fireThere is no problem in living which life hasn't answered to its own needAnd we cannot direct, rule, or doubt what is beyond our highest ability to understand we can only be humble before it we can only worship ourselves because we are a part of itThe eye in the leaf is watching out of our fingersThe ear in the stone is listening through our voicesThe thought of the wave is thinking in our dreamsThe faith of the seed is building with our deaths
— Kenneth Patchen, Collected Poems
We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return.
— Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels
Love is not about finding the right person, but about being the right person.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The ultimate form of attraction is to be what you want to attract.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We see the world as we are.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I am a haystack in a needle of time.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Be the love you seek.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.
— Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.
— Pliny the Elder
Dear heart, we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to leave this world having never really shown up.
— Carrie Newcomer, A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays
It is easy
—  just be to have.
Be the tolerance you seek.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Be the compassion you seek.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is one clear urgency in your life that you must never neglect, and that is — you must be yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.When it’s over, I don’t want to wonderif I have made of my life something particular, and real.I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightenedor full of argument.I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
— Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
Man must be an emptiness, a nothingness, which is not a pure nothingness (reines Nichts), but something that is to the extent that it annihilates Being, in order to realize itself at the expense of Being and to nihilate in being. Man is negating Action, which transforms given Being and, by transforming it, transforms itself. Man is what he is only to the extent that he becomes what he is; his true Being (Sein) is Becoming (Werden), Time, History; and he becomes, he is History only in and by Action that negates the given, the Action of Fighting and of Work — of the Work that finally produces the table on which Hegel writes his Phenomenology, and of the Fight that is finally that Battle at Jena whose sounds he hearts while writing the Phenomenology. And that is why, in answering the “What am I?” Hegel had to take account of both that table and those sounds.
— Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
— Zig Ziglar
A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He makes causes to be causes, thus delegating to them a certain participation in His actuality. Or rather, since causality flows from actuality, let us say that He confers the one in conferring the other, so that to the Christian mind the physical world in which we live offers a face which is the reverse of its physicism itself, a face where all that was read on the one side in terms of force, energy and law, is now read, on the other in terms of participations and analogies of the Divine Being. The Christian world takes on the character of a sacred world with a relation to God inscribed in its very being and every law that rules its functioning.
— Étienne Gilson
Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappearing in his art, dissolving in his verse, thus leaving of himself, of his nebulous person, nothing but verse?
— Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authorization to form a message that appeals from within itself. This power of appeal is exquisitely evident in the object evoked here. The perfect thing is that which articulates an entire principle of being. The poem has to perform no more and no less than to perceive the principle of being in the thing and adapt it to its own existence - with the aim of becoming a construct with an equal power to convey a message.
— Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the ashes of his broken childhood he had formed a decision to be a cheerful person, a do-gooding scientific type with knowledge of English literature. That he had undercurrents of sadness as long and deep as a river was not the point. He had claimed a territory for himself and did not think too much about the complications.
— Laurie Colwin, A Big Storm Knocked It Over
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~
— Alan Cohen
I love, therefore I am.
— Robert Graves
The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.
— Christos Yannaras, Variations on the Song of Songs
The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that is, it loses its colors, so that grayness covers not only things of this earth and of space, but also the very flow of time, its minutes, days and years. Abstract considerations will be of little help, even if they are intended to bring relief. Poetry is quite different. By its very nature it says: All those theories are untrue. Since poetry deals with the singular, not hte general, it can't - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom or complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness.
— Czesław Miłosz
It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.
— Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Philosophy of Science
In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Philosophy of Science
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
— Jim Morrison
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.
— John Fowles, The Magus
The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom and complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness.
— Czesław Miłosz, A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being?
— Nema Al-Araby, Remnants and Ashes
Is it a world in the makingthat turns as it whistles to the depths of my beingIt is burningSuppose it were to appearA bleeding rosary at the windowa sun setting on the marshlands("Silver Clasp")
— Paul Dermée, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology
The fundamental problem here is the continued over-identification with doing. By attempting to “do” The Leap, the practitioner is attempting the impossible (as doing and being point to two different realms). Thus far your training has been largely if not entirely immersed in the relative domain. With Being, your training is stepping beyond this domain into the transcendent. Fundamentally, there is nothing you can “do” to “be.
— Rob McNamara, Strength to Awaken
Not many boys like boys; but they like being a boy, showing it, being it together" (22)(rbt: where does this come from? this being a boy, which is also a doing -- this being wrapped in desire? who teaches it? how? when?)
— Duvert  Summers
But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?
— Martin Buber, I and Thou
The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of our being?
— Nema Al-Araby, Remnants and Ashes
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery
A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
— Alfred Tennyson
Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
— William Shakespeare, Richard III
We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.
— Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.
— Dave Eggers, What Is the What
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.
— Dave Cullen, Columbine
Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.
— Michael Connelly, The Black Echo
Later, when she sees the photographs for the first time, she will be surprised at how calm her face looks - how steady her gaze, how erect her posture. In the picture her eyes will be slightly closed, and there will be a shadow on her neck. The shawl will be draped around her shoulders, and her hands will rest in her lap. In this deceptive photograph, she will look a young woman who is not at all disturbed or embarrassed, but instead appears to be rather serious. And she wonders if, in its ability to deceive, photography is not unlike the sea, which may offer a benign surface to the observe even as it conceals depths and current below.
— Anita Shreve, Fortune's Rocks
I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
We tell you, tapping on our brows,The story as it should be,As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.
— Edwin Robinson
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.
— Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
Guard yourself from lying
—  there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.
Love is beautiful,A beautiful deception.One falls in itTo deceive the other
— Amit Abraham
Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told.
— Anastasia Hollings, Beautiful World
Be careful who influence and inspire your life. Their ways seem like leading to life but the truth is, they lead to eternal death
— Ann Marie Aguilar
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.
— Shane Warne
Our friend Tuesday," said the President in a deep voice at once of quietude and volume, "our friend Tuesday doesn't seem to grasp the idea. He dresses up like a gentleman, but he seems to be too great a soul to behave like one. He insists on the ways of the stage conspirator. Now if a gentleman goes about London in a top hat and a frock-coat, no one need know that he is an anarchist. But if a gentleman puts on a top hat and a frock-coat, and then goes about on his hands and knees — well, he may attract attention. That's what Brother Gogol does. He goes about on his hands and knees with such inexhaustible diplomacy, that by this time he finds it quite difficult to walk upright.""I am not good at goncealment," said Gogol sulkily, with a thick foreign accent; "I am not ashamed of the cause.""Yes you are, my boy, and so is the cause of you," said the President good-naturedly. "You hide as much as anybody; but you can't do it, you see, you're such an ass! You try to combine two inconsistent methods. When a householder finds a man under his bed, he will probably pause to note the circumstance. But if he finds a man under his bed in a top hat, you will agree with me, my dear Tuesday, that he is not likely ever to forget it. Now when you were found under Admiral Biffin's bed—""I am not good at deception," said Tuesday gloomily, flushing."Right, my boy, right," said the President with a ponderous heartiness, "you aren't good at anything.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
I'll say this, Arik: the old man's warning proved to be true - things are not always what they seem. She was no young lady -" "If it's the demon you speak of," interjected Rith, as she stepped back into the ruin, Lyssa following after, "she was not even a toothless old hag.
— Dennis L. McKiernan, Caverns of Socrates
The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.
— Sean Hannity, Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda
The secret lies of manipulative folks, however hidden and cunningly twisted shall eventually come out. Never trust manipulative politically motivated, sly liars while they pretend to be "true friends" with noble and just cause. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy
— Angelica Hopes
Why croak with dishonesty when your target subject discovers, listens, and witnesses beyond the veil of your duplicity?Your proliferation of misinformation, disinformation, gossips, polemics, planted intrigues, lies, calumny, misjudgement, and all other forms of smear campaign, may deceive gullible hearts but you cannot destroy the unparalleled truth which is in the hands of your target victim. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy
— Angelica Hopes
The deception of the world's ways is a prison till you find the key that will set you free
— John M Sheehan
Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelleas and Melisande
And it is seldom easy to convince a person that he is playing the fool.
— Donna Lynn Hess, A Father's Promise
Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race.
— DaShanne Stokes
Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.
— David Ignatius, The Quantum Spy
What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.
— Ira Levin, This Perfect Day
He smiles, even attractive, but appearances are unreliable depictions of character.
— Emily R. King, The Hundredth Queen
Deception starts from the pulpit
— Sunday Adelaja
A man who lacks understanding is susceptible to deception
— Sunday Adelaja
Set yourself free from the deception of miracle focused gospel
— Sunday Adelaja
Legal action is but warfare disguised.
— Mike Klepper
The Holy Spirit will teach you, how to distinguish between right and wrong doctrines
— Sunday Adelaja
In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry -- that was Adolf Hitler's technique. No matter whether it was true or not -- for (Hitler) meant literally his maxim that the bigger the falsehood, the easier to get it believed; people would say you wouldn't dare make up a thing like that. Imagine the worst possible about your enemies and then swear that you knew it, you had seed it, it was God's truth and you were ready to stake your life upon it -- shout this, bellow this, over and over, day after day, night after night...when ten million join in it becomes history.
— Upton Sinclair, Dragon's Teeth I
Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.
— Richard Paul Evans, Rise of the Elgen
Confronting a liar makes a better liar.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.
— Mao Zedong
There might be a deceptive tendency to believe that a life born into a world of plenty should be better, more really a life than one which consists in a struggle against scarcity.
— Ortega y Gasset
See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.
— Kiese Laymon, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
It will take just a simple realization to cause a big change!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
Appearances are deceptive and behaviors reflective.
— Tasneem Hameed
If we run into any legionnaires we'll say we're out hiking and show them our forged imperial identity papers.""What is hiking?" Alain asked. "Walking for fun," Mari explained. "I mean, you're walking long distances, but not because you have to. For fun."Alain gazed steadily at her. "Walking long distances, for fun. Are you saying a joke?"Mari shook her head. "I know it sounds like that, but people really do it.
— Jack Campbell, The Hidden Masters of Marandur
Make an effort with tenacity to make real impact that works and don't just create an impression with deception
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The facts are near to deception!
— Deyth Banger
Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that.
— Kenzaburō Ōe, A Personal Matter
Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can―for a time. But not a very long time.
— Tom Clancy, The Cardinal of the Kremlin
There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.
— Marcus Aurelius
If I close my eyes, I do not see anything but, if I imagine, I see something. To look beyond what you look and see, use your minds eye and not your eyes
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Modern humanism is the faith that through science humankind can know the truth- and to be free. But if Darwin's theory of natural selection is true this is impossible. The human mind serves evolutionary success, not truth. To think otherwise is to resurrect the pre-Darwinian error that humans are different from all other animals. (...) There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution.(...) Among humans, the best deceivers are those who deceive themselves: 'we deceive ourselves in order to deceive others better'. A lover who promises eternal fidelity s more likely to be believed if he believes his promise himself; he is no more likely to keep his promise.(...) In a competition for mates, a well-developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage.
— John Gray, Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales
hypocrisy
—  rejecting what you firmly have in your fist
Thanks liver... you are a champ!
— Siddhant R. Shinde
deceivers shall always be at the junction of double mindedness
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A momentary smile appeared on Cogo's face before fading away. No matter how many times he saw it, he was still amazed by how Kuni's sincerity shaded into an instinct for political theater. He was, of course, moved by the loyalty of a man who would rather be in jail than betray him, but he also knew to play it for all it was worth to cement even more loyalty.
— Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
Deception is a temporary medicine that gives relax for short time, but when the truth gets at even the actual medicine breaks down.
— Ahsan
Authenticity was the key to any deception.  Sometimes authenticity was disgusting.
— Jodi Meadows, The Orphan Queen
i have to love myself more than i love him, in order to leave him.
— Kay M. Rutherford, The Last Cheater's Waltz Trusting Dog Trusting Self
It is better to admit your failure than to live in self deception
— Sunday Adelaja
Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.
— Marty Rubin
one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.
— Graham Greene
Now Ravana said to himself, "These are all petty weapons. I should really get down to proper business." And he invoked the one called "Maya"--a weapon which created illusions and confused the enemy. With proper incantations and worship, he sent off this weapon and it created an illusion of reviving all the armies and its leaders--Kumbakarna and Indrajit and the others--and bringing them back to the battlefield. Presently Rama found all those who, he thought, were no more, coming on with battle cries and surrounding him. Every man in the enemy's army was again up in arms.They seemed to fall on Rama with victorious cries. This was very confusing and Rama asked Matali, whom he had by now revived, "What is happening now? How are all these coming back? They were dead." Matali explained, "In your original identity you are the creator of illusions in this universe. Please know that Ravana has created phantoms to confuse you. If you make up your mind, you can dispel them immediately." Matali's explanation was a great help. Rama at once invoked a weapon called"Gnana"--which means "wisdom" or "perception." This was a very rare weapon, and he sent it forth. And all the terrifying armies who seemed to have come on in such a great mass suddenly evaporated into thin air.
— Vālmīki
Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.
— Honoré de Balzac
You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.
— Gary   Hopkins
The green girl necessarily pines for the past, because the present is too uncomfortable to be present in and the future, unimaginable. The need to long, to desire that which she cannot have, that which has eluded her, because she deceives herself that it was this person, this chance, where she would have found happiness.
— Kate Zambreno, Green Girl
I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him, not desire, not resentment. I wanted to be cold to him, so I turned on my heel and started to walk away.
— Philippa Gregory
Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad, The Third World: Country or People
All things are possible; if something seems like it’s not, it’s only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago
— William Faulkner, The Hamlet
She was forthright to the point of rudeness, yet he couldn’t help admiring her for saying what she really thought. It was rather refreshing to be challenged for a change – it had been many years since anyone had dared to do that. His wealth and power generally seemed to strike rather too much awe into those he associated with. It seemed this Tamsin was different.
— Emily Arden, Lie to me: Deception: Book Two
Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them. What we can't see when we're in the box is that the way the world appears to us is our projection, and that we are making this projection to justify ourselves in self-betrayal. We cannot see that it's not others' actions but our accusations that result in our feeling offended.
— C. Terry Warner
He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?
— Donna Lynn Hope
We must know something about malevolence, about how to recognize it, and about how not to make excuses for it. We must know that we cannot expect fair play.That is, perhaps, most crucial of all. Those of us who practice in this field must face the implications of the fact that we are dealing with sexual abuse. Child sex offenders-people who exploit children’s bodies and betray their trust-are not going to hesitate to lie outright. This is obvious but nonetheless frequently seems to catch people by surprise.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998
— Anna C. Salter
One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
— Brandon Mull, A World Without Heroes
So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught—that with care and meticulous acting and tears of pretended pain and fear, and the final modest telltale stains cautiously placed, a girl can, if necessary, be virgin ten times for ten different men.
— James Clavell, Tai-Pan