False Quotes
1931 quotes by 1326 authors
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is…
— George Will
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I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely…
— C.S. Lewis
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To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to…
— Deepak Chopra
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When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the…
— Charles Darwin
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain…
— Sigmund Freud
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect…
— Edward Abbey
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To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal. To be of choice is to enter the world:…
— Rajneesh
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a…
— George Boole
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The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of…
— Pope John Paul II
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All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot…
— Richard G. Scott
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Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception.…
— James E. Faust
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far…
— Rajneesh
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Why do you dream? - because there are so many desires unfulfilled, and to live with unfulfilled desires is painful. In dream you try to…
— Rajneesh
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There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your…
— Rajneesh
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Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and…
— Laozi
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction…
— Julia Hill
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The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything else is a…
— Rajneesh
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