lying

ghost

dad joke

liar

transparency

trust

jungle

Donald Trump

deontology

truth-telling

categorical imperative

Immanuel Kant

pregnancy

breakup

bullshitter

maturity

one-liner

lawyer

Pinocchio

trivia

pathological liar

parenting

relationship

battle of the sexes

cheating (affair)

totem

deception

life hack

tattling

tattletale

folk tale

sexism

is a delightful thing for it leads to the truth.

Lying is a delightful thing for it leads to the truth. Fyodor Dostoevsky

is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. Helen Rowland

is a kind of medicine without which one cannot console or relieve... to give relieve, one must keep a drug-shop of lies.

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying' ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men. Anatole France

is a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship. Sam Harris

is a trade not to be undertaken by one who is not sure of his memory.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne

is an act that increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.Clare Boothe Luce

is an essential condition for the functioning of language and life, inherent to langue itself because it consist merely of metaphors translating sensations into images and images into sounds.

Indeed, [Andrea] Orsucci reminds us that, for Nietzsche, lying is an essential condition for the functioning of language and life. Nietzsche considers lying to be inherent to language itself, because it consist merely of metaphors translating sensations into images and images into sounds.

is an unintended respect paid to the person one lies to in that it acts as a tacit acknowledgement of that person's superiority over oneself.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.Samuel Butler

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