{"quotes":[{"text":"The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of one’s own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people’s notions, notions that were being crammed down everybody’s throat.","author":"Boris Pasternak","tags":["opinion","russia","social-evils","untruth"],"id":3550,"author_id":"Boris+Pasternak"},{"text":"In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.","author":"Michael Ende","tags":["cause","lying","reason","truth","untruth"],"id":15289,"author_id":"Michael+Ende"},{"text":"Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["anguish","betrayal","breakup","cry","crying","infatuation","love","ridicule","smiles","smiling","tears","unreciprocated-love","unreturned-love","untruth"],"id":48361,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["course","diehard","dogma","dogmatism","extremist","false","fanatic","fanaticism","follower","ignorance","lies","michael-bassey-johnson","misgiving","misuderstanding","path","religion","stoop","untruth","wind"],"id":57710,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal truths. Thoughts and feelings combine to create profound truths and compose extravagant falsities. Truth making exposes certain falsehoods, and lies shed light upon irrefutable truths. Art reveals the pageantry of nature along with the unmitigated grotesqueness that accompanies an earthly life. The search for truth begins with an intellectual journey into darkness whereas the search for beauty requires an imaginative act trussed with the classical beauty of Apollonian lightness. Aesthetic appreciation represents the perfect reconciliation of the sensual and rational parts of humankind’s animalistic nature. Similar to aesthetic experience – contemplation of beauty without imposition of a worldly agenda – love depends upon human sensory-emotional values, a judgement of values and sentiments.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["aesthetics","beauty","beauty-in-nature","beauty-of-life","dual-core","dualism","dualistic-thinking","emotional-trauma","feelings-and-emotions","love","love","love-and-sayings","principles-of-life","search-for-truth","sensual","sentiments","thoughts-and-beliefs","truth","truth-of-life","truth","universal-truths","untruth","values","values-in-life"],"id":119087,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["complexities","deception","liar","lie","lies","right","single","speak","spoken-word","straightforward","trust","trustworthy","truth","twin","untruth","words"],"id":191563,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.","author":"Gotthold Ephraim Lessing","tags":["belief","language","perception","reality","truth","untruth"],"id":216924,"author_id":"Gotthold+Ephraim+Lessing"},{"text":"Laine had been very proud of herself last night. Nicholas had talked about ghosts and magic and woven a bit of a spell himself. He'd sounded so convincing, so logical, so sad, that she'd found herself wanting to believe him. But testing prods at his argument had made him angry, and long years with Gavin had taught her that angry, defensive people shared the lousy habit of being wrong.","author":"Stephen M. Irwin","tags":["anger","charisma","conning","defensiveness","pride","supernatural","untruth","wariness"],"id":247710,"author_id":"Stephen+M.+Irwin"},{"text":"The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.","author":"Michael Moorcock","tags":["lies","paradox","subtlety","truth","untruth"],"id":296420,"author_id":"Michael+Moorcock"},{"text":"A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["deceit","information","untruth"],"id":299006,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}