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  • The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.32, University of Chicago Press
  • For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

    "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 223), 1984.
  • The truth is more important than the facts.

    Wise   Witty   Truth  
    Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier
  • Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

    Race   Idols   Evil  
    William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.553
  • It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

    Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.134, Stanford University Press
  • Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

    Haste   Delay   Truth Is  
  • Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.

    Thomas Aquinas, Anton C. Pegis (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2”, p.335, Hackett Publishing
  • This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.

    Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.106, Routledge
  • Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.

    People   Risk   Fragility  
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.347, Random House
  • A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

    Liars   Lying   Ends  
    William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151
  • Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

    Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28
  • Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

    John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.411
  • It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

    Truth   Lying   World  
    Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.67
  • O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

    Wisdom   Truth   Lying  
    Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)
  • We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

    Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on
  • Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

    Truth   Lying   Liars  
    Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.487
  • Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

    Animal   Soul   Guilt  
    Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.305, Macmillan
  • Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

    Believe   Media   Years  
    William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”
  • Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

  • A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

    Christian   Peace   War  
    Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.163, Best Books on
  • Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.

    Space   Looks   Shelter  
  • A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

    'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53
  • Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

    Evil   Sides   Conflict  
    James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”
  • The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

    Truth   Honesty   Men  
    John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.172, Hackett Publishing
  • A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

  • The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

  • First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

    Love   Truth   Genius  
    "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 382, 1833.
  • Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

  • Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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