#falsehood

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

#against #being #cause #could #done

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#logic #prior #truth #world

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#errors #falsehoods #filled #knows #mind

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#between #deceive #difference #ethical #falsehoods

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#far #formed #man #mind #more

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#falsehood #fury #pain #love

I find it most offensive that the character of Reason, whom [Jean den Meun (author of the Romance of the Rose)] himself calls the daughter of God, should put forth such a statement as ... where she says by way of a proverb that "in the war of Love it is better to deceive than be deceived." And indeed I dare say that in making that statement Jean den Meun's Reason denied her Father, for the doctrine He gave was altogether different. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #dishonesty #falsehood #love #reason

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves. ↗

— Yiyun Li

#dead #death #deception #falsehoods #lies

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ↗

— Anthony Hope

#generally #misunderstand #people #promoting #telling

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#everything #falsehood #little #passes #spoken