Falsity Quotes

Falsity Quote of the day

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

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.

False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

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.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

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.

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

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.

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.

...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

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

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

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.

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.

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.

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.

It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?