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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. -- Jean Rostand
Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting. -- Rich Lowry
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. -- Blaise Pascal
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. -- Michael Servetus
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. -- Francis Atterbury
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. -- Blaise Pascal
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in. -- Ken Kesey
False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected. -- William Penn
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them. -- Thomas Otway
To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish. -- Thomas Carlyle
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie. -- John Dryden
...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity. -- Alvin Boyd Kuhn
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
if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity. -- Ming-Dao Deng
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
Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity. -- Susan Blackmore
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. -- Perry Anderson
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena. -- Robert Nozick
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
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology. -- Jason Beghe
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having. 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
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . . -- Corliss Lamont
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that the magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. -- Aldous Huxley
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. -- Leo Tolstoy
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. -- Mark Twain
The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language. -- Errol Morris
All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory. -- Karl Popper
The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true. -- Michelangelo
The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day. -- Karl Kautsky
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow. -- Baruch Spinoza
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality. -- William James
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and the falsity of their beliefs. -- Pierre-Paul Grasse

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