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Quote #1225 - #LyingLiar
16 Feb, 2026
LYING LIAR
"Under normal circumstances the liar is defeated by reality, for which there is no substitute; no matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough, even if he enlists the help of computers, to cover the immensity of factuality."
Hannah Arendt
"When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says."
Harry G. Frankfurt
ON BULLSHIT
"Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light."
Kamand Kojouri
"The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
George Bernard Shaw
The consummate liar
doesn't lie
every time they speak
doesn't lie to the same degree
every time they lie.
That would actually be
simpler to process,
easier to comprehend.
But no.
A consummate liar
a pathological liar
a bullshit artist
a snake-oil salesman
lies all the time
but not every time
and certainly not
to the same degree each time.
And so you need to
test everything--
doubt, research, vet
everything.
It's exhausting.
Every declaration brings on
mountains of work.
And maybe that's the point, really.
If the lying liar keeps you exhausted
keeps you hunting for the truth in everything
(within or without the lie),
you don't have the time or energy left
to hold them
to account.
Shellen Lubin
February 16, 2026
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