“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

“Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power....”

“In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act”

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.”

“Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.”