A Quote by Pablo Picasso
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
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Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.
I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.
Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth again. The beauties of the Parthenon, the Venuses, the Nymphs, the Narcisusses, are so may lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive independently of that canon.
Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.
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