#false

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#conceal #contradiction #disguise #duplicity #falsehood

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#believe #false #love #mind #must

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#error #false #idolatry #purify #science

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#falsehood #good #hatred #love #overcome

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#both #distinctions #either #false #hard

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#blunt #counsel #enough #falsehoods #mischief

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. ↗

— Richard Powers

#binary #book #character #either #emotions

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#embedded #enjoy #false #foundational #into

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#because #class #danger #deep #deep desire

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#businesses #claim #depress #falsely #hiring