Quotes About Falsity

Out of the surfeit of falsity born of technology and commercialism, we rejoice in returning to primary data and to assurance that the world is a world of enduring forms which in themselves are neither brutal nor sentimental.

Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd...

If you only make it up, you never have to live it down.

I simply can't make jokes - the default value of every joke is a lie.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love.

All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

I'm wearing this fake smile.

if you can say something that is provably false, and no one cares, then you can't have a real debate about anything.

It was not so much that he lied as that there was no truth to tell.

The 1920s could be said to have patented the idea of history as a form of instant irony, as a funhouse mirror revealing every distortion and falsity in things once held timeless and true, and it is hard to use irony on those who perfected it.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

I'm anti-verite. I think the verite style is a completely false thing. Most things are false to arrive at a truth; verite is falsity without acknowledging its falsity.

Le hemos ofrecido una falsa impresión del desenfreno del proletariado

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

É difficile sapere cosa sia la verità, ma a volte è molto facile riconoscere una falsità

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.