
No. 112
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Source: A Scanner Darkly
No. 112
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter.
Source: The Idea of History (1946), p. 10
Niebla [Mist] (1914)
Context: Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself — that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks — he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech — this thing that they call a social product — was made for lying.
“A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.”
Quoted by Max Beerbohm in Hebert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art Collected by Max Beerbohm http://books.google.com/books?id=wM08AAAAIAAJ&q="A+man+never+knows+what+a+fool+he+is+until+he+hears+himself+imitated+by+one"&pg=PA312#v=onepage (1920).