Falsity Quotes - Page 3

• ...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity.

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn

  Thinking, Foundation, Doe

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn (2013). “The Ultimate Canon of Knowledge”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.

  Susan Blackmore

  Past, Ideas, Rejection

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• Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

  Honore de Balzac

  Feelings, Natural, Midst

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• The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ideas, Mind, Important

  Quoted as the opening passage of "BOOK ONE: The Functions of Language" in "Language in Thought and Action" by S. I. Hayakawa, (p. 3), 1949.

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• if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Liars, Self, Roles

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• All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Theory, Can Do

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• The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

  Mark Twain

  War, Lying, Men

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• It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deceived

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• Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

  Errol Morris

  Language, Concern, Property

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Truth, Lying

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.2818, e-artnow

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• Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

  Perry Anderson

  Simple, Ideas, Quality

  Perry Anderson (2005). “Spectrum”, p.76, Verso

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