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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that te...

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It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, s...

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Hannah ArendtCrises of the Republic: Lying in Politics

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked process...

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When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really...

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despi...

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationsh...

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And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut...

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Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking...

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P. D. JamesThe Children of Men

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...

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The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It...

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...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a g...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions ...

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The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good st...

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George HerbertThe Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert