Quotes About Falsity

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

It's better to be slapped by the truth then kissed with a lie.

It was easy to see that it was all crap.

It was her always insatiable reading that managed to uncover truths hidden in the most barefaced fake, falsity with no attenuating circumstances in words claiming to be the most truthful.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

I don't like to tell lies.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Good conversation is the enemy of falsity, facade, and shallowness. It chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade and it penetrates the depths so as to soar into unfolding possibility.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Marie Antoinette is said to have dismissed the plight of the poor by declaring, "Let them eat cake." But there's no evidence the queen ever said it, and plenty of evidence that Jean-Jacques Rousseau did. His autobiographical book, "Confessions," included the phrase about 1767, before Marie Antoinette even got to France. The quote in the original French refers to brioche, which is not really a cake and is better described as an enriched bread roll.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

We would not know even what the false is, if there were not times when we had distinguished it from the true...If we are to be able to speak of falsity, we do have to have experiences of truth.

That there's a difference 'twixt false and true.

Descriptions of dreams have a dubious place in storytelling. For these are dreams which have been imagined--'dreamed up', to be slotted in. A story can be made up. How can a dream be made up? By not rising of its own free will from the unconscious it sets a note of falsity, merely illustrating something 'dream-like', which may be why dream descriptions within stories seen curiously meaningless. To avoid glazing over, best then to turn the page quickly.

You can fake anything, but not happiness.

Real life can never have a written lie all over it.

That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be

You can pour syrup on a turd, but that don't make it a pancake.

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.