Falsification Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for…
— Gunter Grass
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All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we know he enjoyed…
— Rajneesh
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I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.
— Erich Fromm
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Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence.…
— Karl Popper
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Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.
— Aldous Huxley
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter
— Ed Markey
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My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that…
— Norman Finkelstein
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I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.
— John Carew
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
— Imre Lakatos
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When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place;…
— Frithjof Schuon
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The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of…
— John Barth
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It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect…
— Karl Popper
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This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see…
— W G Sebald
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With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen -…
— Rajneesh
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled…
— Walter Kirn
Who Wrote These Falsification Quotes
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