It’s Easier to Fool People
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled
Symbolic and poetic hubs that gather recurring motifs, emotional structures, aesthetics, and thematic patterns from across the site.
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If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him
from God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin
If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist.
from God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
from Mitch All Together
Good Fiction Is Always the Truth Inside the Lie.
from Stephen King from A to Z by Stephen King
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
from 1984 by George Orwell
They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized.
Source: Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire by Manly P. Hall
"The theory," he said, "wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people...
The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.
If there was an infinity of worlds, as Bruno maintained, for whom in particular had Christ died on this earth? If the universe was eternal, what would become of God the Creator? Acceptance of the Copernican cosmology was a religious...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
As a scientific theory, Darwinism would have been jettisoned long ago. The point, however, is that the doctrine of evolution has swept the world not on the strength of its scientific merits, but precisely in its capacity as a Gnostic...
Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion by Wolfgang Smith
Here they are hurling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour and the only thing that keeps them from flying out of their shoes is their misplaced faith in gravity.
Source: 3rd Rock from the Sun
Also, every myth represents the absolute truth within its society. The word ‘myth’ is derived from the Greek word mythos, which can mean ‘story’, but also means ‘word’, in the sense of ‘the final word’. Indeed, anybody who dared to...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
What this secret tradition reveals is that the one whom most Christians naïvely worship as creator, God, and Father is, in reality, only the image of the true God. According to Valentinus, what Clement and Ignatius mistakenly ascribe to God...
Source: The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying...
Source: Jesus Christ, Sun of God by David Fideler
Of course you don't know. You don't know because only I know. If you knew and I didn't know, then you'd be teaching me instead of me teaching you. And for a student to teach his teacher is presumptuous and...
It is the supreme challenge, and a brutal one, but every scientific theory must be testable and compatible with reality. The nineteenth-century naturalist Thomas Huxley stated it thus: ‘The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
It channeled funds through three private medical research foundations. One of these, the Geschikter Foundation for Medical Research in Washington, D.C., is still active. Another, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology Inc., was disbanded in 1965. A third...
Source: Private Institutions Used in C.I.A. Effort to Control Behavior
The CIA's intrusion into the foundation field in the 1960s can only be described as massive. Excluding grants from the "Big Three"- Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie--of the 700 grants over $10,000 given by 164 other foundations during the period 1963-1966,...
The use of philanthropic organizations was a convenient way to pass funds, in that large amounts could be transferred rapidly, and in a form that need not alert unwitting officers of the recipient organizations to their source. In addition, foundation...
One group of the religious looked upon the absorption with secondary causes as a deflection from contemplation of the divine Primary Cause and hence suspect, if not heretical, especially when propositions like the Copernican hypothesis, touted as absolute truths, contradicted...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel
Something’s wrong with our eyes - We're seeing things in a different way, and God knows it ain't his
Source: Livin’ On The Edge by Aerosmith
I wanna hide the truth - I wanna shelter you - But with the beast inside, There's nowhere we can hide
Source: Demons by Imagine Dragons
Is this your fake hip-hop publication? Look, I'm burnin' this
Source: Bulworth by Prodigy, KRS-One, Method Man, Kam
I wonder 'bout the lies I've been reading - I wonder where this madness is leading
Source: Blinded by Science (Foreigner) by Foreigner
Feed my eyes - Now you've sewn them shut
Source: Man in the Box by Alice in Chains
If you think that I don't know about the little tricks you've played - And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way
Source: I Can See for Miles by The Who
You can resurrect a thousand words to deceive me more and more
Source: A Thousand Words by Savage Garden
I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in
Source: Jumper by Third Eye Blind
Something tells me this isn't true
Source: Planet Earth (Poem) by Michael Jackson
Tell me that you'll open your eyes - Get up, get out, get away from these liars
Source: Open Your Eyes by Snow Patrol
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming, or the moment of truth in your lies
Source: Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
I want to break free, I want to break free from your lies
Source: I Want to Break Free by Queen
I wander through fiction to look for the truth - Buried beneath all the lies - And I stood at a distance to feel who you are - Hiding myself in your eyes
Source: Before It’s Too Late by Goo Goo Dolls
You're happy 'cause you smile - But how much can you fake?
Source: Superman’s Dead by Our Lady Peace
Einstein's down on the beach standing into the sand, 'cause everything he believes in is shattered
Source: Einstein on the Beach by Counting Crows
The world begins to disappear - The worst things come from inside here
Source: Einstein on the Beach by Counting Crows
Tell me lies - Tell me sweet little lies
Source: Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac
Hook me up a new revolution, 'cause this one is a lie
Source: Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters
Got two good eyes but they still don't see
Source: Casey Jones by Grateful Dead
The picture you see is no portrait of me - It's too real to be shown to someone I don't know
Source: Round and Round (New Order) by New Order
They painted up your secrets, with the lies they told to you - And the least they ever gave you, was the most you ever knew
Source: Acoustic #3 by Goo Goo Dolls
A man can tell a thousand lies, I've learned my lesson well
Source: Live to Tell by Madonna
Did all my dreams never mean one thing?
Source: Bad Liar (Official Video) by Imagine Dragons
Yeah I fill you full of little lies, you're still hungry for the truth - And I know we've got problems, let's just try to solve them
Source: Bleed Into Your Mind by The All-American Rejects
Don’t believe the church and state and everything they tell you -
Source: Silent Running by Mike + The Mechanics
I did not believe the information I just had to trust imagination
Source: Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel
Open your eyes, don't say a word, I'll tell you why - You're living a lie.
Source: Your Life is a Lie by MGMT
The birds and the bees, they are wise to the lies - So they took to the trees and took to the skies
Source: The Mission by Puscifer
All my instincts, they return and the grand facade, so soon will burn
Source: In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel
Open Your Eyes, Your Life Is a Lie
I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they’re real.