Quotes, Lies and lying
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- Paul Ekman
"After my first visit to the USSR in 1964, I lied.
Actually, lie might be too strong a word: I wrote an article...
where I said a number of friendly things about the USSR which I did not believe.
I did it partly because I considered that it is not polite to denigrate your hosts as soon as you return home,
and partly because Ididn't really know where I stood in relation to both the USSR and my own ideas."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
"Deprive the average man of his vital lie,
and you've robbed him of happiness as well."
- Ibsen
"Falsifying an emotion can cover the leakage of a concealed emotion...
The smile is the mask most frequently employed"
- Paul Ekman
"I fear 'clean'. I am wary of straight ties, polished smiles, tidy rooms,
immaculate resumes, and antiseptic press releases.
They smell to me of artifice and danger.
I never completely trust anyone until they belch, swear, weep or bleed.
If it lives, it's dirty. Clean is a cover-up."
- John Cowan
"If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world." - Reginald Blyth
"Liars tend to be most careful about their choice of words" - Paul Ekman
"No clue to deceit is reliable for all human beings, but singly and in combination they can help the lie catcher in judging most people" - Paul Ekman
"Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them" - Paul Ekman
"People often mistake what I say for what I am thinking." -Idi Amin Dada
"No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth" - Jean Giraudoux
"When I see a person smile I check the eyes to see it's true,
For when a person TRULY smiles, the eyes will smile too!"
By Belinda Williams
See also: [ http://www.interstat.net/gargaro/clintonquotes.html ] Bill Clinton quotes
(yeah, it's a cheap shot, but what the hell.)
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Michael Conover
> "Deprive the average man of his vital lie,
> and you've robbed him of happiness as well."
> - Ibsen
I have this as:
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness
at the same stroke.
With a citation (which was not discovered by me, so I cannot vouch for it)
as:
-Henrik Ibsen
_The Wild Duck_
Act V
My guess that these are both translations. (I don't know enough of
Ibsen to know if he wrote in English, or if this particular play was written
in English.) For what it's worth, I prefer the version I have. It's more
poetic.
I would usually try to search for this myself, but my modem is otherwise
overloaded at the moment. As some of of you will be happy to hear, it's
because I am uploading a few dozen pages to my not-yet-born webpage. I'd
put in the late third trimester.
---Michael
Michael Conover
message.
> "A liar loses the choice whether to conceal or falsify once challenged by
the victim"
> - Paul Ekman
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned
is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrender's one's
reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master,
condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's
view requires to be faked. And if one gains the immediate purpose of the
lie--the price one pays is the destruction of that which the gain was
intended to serve. The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from
then on.
-Dagny Taggart, a heroine in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_, 1957
Part Three : A Is A
Ch. III, "Anti-Greed"
> "Liars tend to be most careful about their choice of words" - Paul Ekman
And scholars. And lawyers. And legislators. And anyone making a
contract. Ekman seems to be goading us into accepting the inverse of this
proposition, which would be, "Those who are careful about their choice of
words tend to be liars," which is, of course, wrong.
---Michael
William C Waterhouse
In article <susu502...@corp.supernews.com>,
"Michael Conover" <michael...@netcarrier.com> writes:
>...
> > "Deprive the average man of his vital lie,
> > and you've robbed him of happiness as well."
> > - Ibsen
>
> I have this as:
>
> Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness
> at the same stroke.
>
> With a citation (which was not discovered by me, so I cannot vouch for it)
> as:
> -Henrik Ibsen
> _The Wild Duck_
> Act V
>
> My guess that these are both translations. (I don't know enough of
> Ibsen to know if he wrote in English, or if this particular play was written
> in English.) For what it's worth, I prefer the version I have. It's more
> poetic.
1) It is indeed The Wild Duck, toward the beginning of Act V.
2) The play was written in Norwegian.
3) The word in question is "livslognen", a word invented here
(though using a standard form of word combination); it literally
means "life-lie".
4) We don't really want the speaker here (Dr. Relling) to sound
poetic. Here's a little more of what he says in the scene, starting
with his first use of the word. (This is in the translation by Michael
Meyer, which I am told is the best now available.)
Gregers: And what medicine are you giving him?
Relling: My usual one. I feed the life-lie in him.
Gregers: Life-LIE, did you say?
Relling: Yes, that's right. The universal stimulant.
....
Relling: Forget that foreign word "ideals." Why not use that
good old Norwegian word: "lies."
....
Relling: Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and
you rob him of his happiness.
William C. Waterhouse
Penn State