Deceive

Famous quotes containing the word deceive:

“It may be possible to deceive men, but one cannot deceive the gods.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

“A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)