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False Quotes by Simone Weil
- Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
- Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is…
- A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
- If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it…
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- . . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the… — William Shakespeare
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- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
- An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often… — Russell Baker