Falsity Quotes

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Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence,… — John F. Kennedy
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing… — Mark Twain
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men… — Max Wertheimer
Don`t imitate: imitation creates falsity, pseudo-ness, inauthenticity. Just feel your own way and don`t bother about what others say. It is nobody else`s business. Don`t… — Rajneesh
But how to know the falsity of death? How can we know there is no death? Until we know that, our fear of death will… — Rajneesh
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,… — Victor Hugo
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity,… — Perry Anderson
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… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you… — David Mamet
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as… — Corliss Lamont
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… — William James
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization… — Franz Joseph Gall
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists… — Louis Agassiz
The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition,… — Dave Rodgers
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. — Michael Servetus
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… — Manton S. Eddy
The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day. — Karl Kautsky
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury
..Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, (is) the champion of the scientific doctrine of freedom of research, which has suffered in recent years through the falsity of… — Roland V. Libonati

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