Rupert Sheldrake Quotes

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

You can never trust what you read.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.

About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.