Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Although you keep lying and cheating and prove yourself, remember truth gains power against falsehood.., maybe not today or tomorrow, but someday.. — Nushra Copy Share Image
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred… — John Edward Redmond Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or… — Plato Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding… — Tim Macartney-Snape Copy Share Image
If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image