Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.

No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.