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Quotes About Falsity

Life is lie, Living is the truth.
~ Naresh Soni
Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.
~ John O'Donohue
A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue
~ John Rawls
Although, however, Hobbes's theory of Predication, according to the well-known remark of Leibnitz, and the avowal of Hobbes himself, 32 renders truth and falsity completely arbitrary, with no standard but the will of men, it must not be concluded that either Hobbes, or any of the other thinkers who have in the main agreed with him, did in fact consider the distinction between truth and error as less real, or attached less importance to it, than other people.
~ John Stuart Mill
Talentul" e mijlocul cel mai sigur de a denatura totul, de a sluÅ£i înf??iÅŸarea lucrurilor ÅŸi de a te înÅŸela în privinÅ£a propriei tale persoane. ExistenÅ£a adev?rat? e apanajul acelora pe care natura nu i-a copleÅŸit cu vreo înzestrare. De aceea, e greu de conceput un univers mai fals decît cel literar ÅŸi un om mai lipsit de adev?r decît literatul. (Silogismele amaraciunii)
~ Emil Cioran
Indeed, just as light makes manifest both itself and darkness, so truth is the standard both of itself and falsity.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
~ Baruch Spinoza
He who takes advice about his savings from one who is inexperienced in such matters, shall pay with his savings for proving the falsity of their opinions.
~ George S. Clason
Lies go out, but the truth stays home.
~ Scott Lynch
You can't pray a lie Huck Finn
~ Mark Twain
Martin Luther King Jr.
~ A lie cannot live.
For what is our civilised world but a big masquerade? where you meet knights, priests, soldiers, men of learning, barristers, clergymen, philosophers, and I don't know what all! But they are not what they pretend to be; they are only masks, and, as a rule, behind the masks you will find moneymakers.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to. ... Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Some ideas actually are false, and at some point the process of checking establishes their falsehood so firmly that to proceed as if they might be true becomes ridiculous. For
~ Jonathan Rauch
concentrate on knowing what is falsey, and then everything else you can consider truthy. Let's look at some examples of using these falsey values
~ Eric Freeman
The defining feature of this spy would be his falsity. He was a pure figment of imagination, a weapon in war far removed from the traditional battle of bombs and bullets.
~ Ben Macintyre
They say you can litter-box train them, but they lie.
~ Gillian Flynn
I'm afraid of the dark.' And his mother: 'Don't be silly. You know there's nothing to be afraid in the dark.' But he knew hte falsity of the reasoning; he knew how they taught also that there was nothing to fear in death, and how fearfully they avoided the idea of it.
~ Graham Greene
Sar-ah,' he called. 'Sar-ah,' spacing the syllables with an unbearable falsity.
~ Graham Greene
El 28% de las mujeres de la página web declaraban ser rubias, un número bastante superior a la media, lo cual indica grandes dosis de tinte, de mentira, o de ambos.
~ Steven D. Levitt
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
~ James McGreevey
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
~ Sam Harris
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
~ Heather Brooke
Jurisprudential law is sham law: to ascribe stability to this creature of the imagination, is to ascribe stability to a shadow.
~ bentham jeremy ii