Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Jean Cocteau
Related Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distingui... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new ma... WANG YANG-MING All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruit... HENRY MILLER All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself / civilization, in a word is the fruits... HENRY MILLER He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too. MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly... VIKTOR FRANKL Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he trul... VICTOR FRANKL Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; ... EMILE DURKHEIM A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw... MEISTER ECKHART Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other pers... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other pe... RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, F... TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without ... HENRY WOTTON, SR. An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without ... HENRY WOTTON SR. At night, to his own dark fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tor... THOMAS HOOD At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
To... AARON HILL From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object... MARK TWAIN From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object... MARK TWAIN One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself... GEORG GRODDECK He who lies hid in remote places is a law unto himself PUBLILIUS SYRUS He lies to himself the way he lies to me. He believes this. He actually believes that he was good to... PAULA HAWKINS For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and ... MARK GALLI God himself does not give answers. He gives himself. FREDERICK BUECHNER A man really determines himself by what he does. VIN SCULLY Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the trut... OSCAR WILDE A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means... GEORGE ELIOT They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himsel... JACK CADE What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ... CATHERINE CROWE A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... ALEXANDER DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... ALEXANDRE DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... AMBROSE BIERCE A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... ALEXANDRE DUMAS When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself... GERRIT SMITH A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion... APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the f... SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does no... LAO TZU A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies. ROBERT BURTON A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. MARIANNE MOORE And if Amsterdam was hell, and if hell was a memory, then he realized that perhaps there was some pu... PAUL AUSTER A Lovers a liar, to himself he lies. The truthful are loveless, like oysters their eyes KURT VONNEGUT JR. Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man. JOSé N. HARRIS True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to someth... HENRY MILLER The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroy... JAMES ALLEN It is a weak, insecure and dishonest man who seeks to make himself look accomplished, not through hi... IRENE ROCHE A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop... RICHARD M. NIXON The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited wit... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited wit... RALPH WALDO EMERSON An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... A. W. TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... AIDEN WILSON TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... A.W. TOZER For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or ... GEORGE ORWELL Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed... BLAISE PASCAL Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SIDNEY MADWED Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SYDNEY MADWED The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienat... CARL GUSTAV JUNG Anthropology holds up a great mirror to man and lets him look at himself in his infinite variety. CLYDE KLUCKHOHN To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in th... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac... JOHANN VON GOETHE What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. CONFUCIUS What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. CONFUCIUS Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the fac... FINLEY PETER DUNNE Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089 Jesus hath many lovers ... THOMAS À KEMPIS From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and... MAX STIRNER Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own lab... STANISłAW LEM The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. CHARLES H. PARKHURST Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his mere... C.S. LEWIS God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back
again to Himself. MATTHEW BARKER It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured. STANISLAW JERZY LEC He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself. JOHN CLARKE No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a c... H. L. MENCKEN A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself. Indeed he progressed in all thin... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW That's him. Jason has his own strategy for pacing himself and he does it well. AMY BEANER No one can reach Him. He Himself creates, and He Himself nurtures, all beings and creatures are fash... GURU NANAK Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and prese... TIMOTHY SNYDER A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their e... KURT VONNEGUT When God Himself bestows His Glance of Grace, He blends us into Himself. SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others ... ALBERT EINSTEIN What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has... STEVEN L. SHEPPARD The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the... VIKTOR E. FRANKL A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek t... AIDEN TOZER Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek t... AIDEN WILSON TOZER He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself CHINESE PROVERBS He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so har... ELIZABETH GASKELL A man does not need to do anything to impress anyone. Anyone will be impressed by him being himself JERIC CABRALES HERNANDEZ Despite claims of being distraught and confused, sometime while he had the body he did take time, in... KEITH HAMILTON No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires mo... JEREMY TAYLOR Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply can... CONFUCIUS The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s... PAUL HOFFMAN
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