#falsehood

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ↗

— William James

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! ↗