Quotes about Deception

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of heresies and schisms.

A man's life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, that is, he never is aware in the deepest sense that there is a God.

People do say that now to know oneself is a deception and an imperfection, but often they are unwilling to understand that someone who actually knows himself perceives precisely that he is not capable of anything at all

Zealousness to learn from life is seldom found, but all the more frequently a desire, inclination, and reciprocal haste to be deceived by life.

Just as a dog which is compelled to walk on two feet has every instant a tendency to go again on all four, and does so as soon as it sees its chance, waiting only to see its chance, so is Christendom an effort of the human race to go back to walking on all fours, to get rid of Christianity, to do it knavishly under the pretext that this is Christianity, claiming that it is Christianity perfected.

Numbers are the most dangerous of all illusions

The Devil's success is contingent upon people's ignorance.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

See a charmer and you're bound to see a snake nearby