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Your Life Is a Lie

💬 Quote Library — containing “Your Life Is a Lie”

It’s Easier to Fool People

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled

from Unknown (Misattributed to Mark Twain)

If God Really Existed, It Would Be Necessary To Abolish Him

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

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

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

Good Fiction Is Always the Truth Inside the Lie.

from Stephen King from A to Z by Stephen King

These People Are Wrong

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

from These People Are Wrong

Reject the Evidence of Your Eyes

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

📖 Excerpts Library

Truth Has Been in the World Unrecognized

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

They Are Metaphysicists Rather Than Scientists

"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...

Source: New York Times article July 11th 1935

A Mass of Error and Deceptive Ideas

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.

Source: New York Times article July 11th 1935

Acceptance of the Copernican Cosmology Was a Religious Act

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

It Affirms, in Effect, That Living Beings Create Themselves

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

Their Misplaced Faith in Gravity

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

Every Myth Represents the Absolute Truth Within Its Society

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

He Is a Lesser Divine Being Who Serves as the Instrument of the Higher Powers

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

Those Who Are the Most Captivated by Its Spell

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

You Don’t Know Because Only I Know

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...

Source: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

The Slaying of a Beautiful Hypothesis by an Ugly Fact

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

Private Institutions Used in C.I.A. Effort to Control Behavior

It Channeled Funds Through Three Private Medical Research Foundations

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

CIA Funding Was Involved

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,...

Source: Final Report Of The Church Committee

The Use of Philanthropic Organizations

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...

Source: Final Report Of The Church Committee

Touted as Absolute Truths

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

🎼 Song Excerpts

Something’s Wrong with Our Eyes

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

There’s Nowhere We Can Hide

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?

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 '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

Feed my eyes - Now you've sewn them shut

Source: Man in the Box by Alice in Chains

The Little Tricks You’ve Played

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

A Thousand Words to Deceive Me More and More

You can resurrect a thousand words to deceive me more and more

Source: A Thousand Words by Savage Garden

Cut Ties with All the Lies That You’ve Been Living In

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

Something tells me this isn't true

Source: Planet Earth (Poem) by Michael Jackson

Tell Me That You’ll Open Your Eyes

Tell me that you'll open your eyes - Get up, get out, get away from these liars

Source: Open Your Eyes by Snow Patrol

The Moment of Truth in Your Lies

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 from Your Lies

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

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