#falseness

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The Dark") ↗

— Dennis Etchison

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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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