I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.
Quotes about falsity (14 Quotes)
Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
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.
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
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.
In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp firmly the ideals which have made this country great. We must reaffirm the basic human values that have guided our forefathers. A revival of old-fashioned patriotism and a grateful acknowledgment of what our country has done for us would be good for all our souls.
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.
I feel it necessary to make these points clear because of the references to my firm in the Mayor's article, ... Further references to my firm in a manner which clearly reflect intent to throw blame in my direction will not be tolerated .... Placing into issue this firm's competence may well serve to waive the City's privilege with respect to documents in our possession which are necessary to demonstrate the falsity of those assertions.
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.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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.