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  • Camille Paglia There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • C. Truesdell There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.
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  • Augusten Burroughs There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • William Shakespeare This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Hobbes True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
    Leviathan (1651)
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Machiavelli War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • John Stuart Mill We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Henry Miller What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Emanuel Swedenborg What is true is true, and what is false is false...
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Barry Unsworth Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Edgar A. Guest You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Ambrose Bierce An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • William Shakespeare False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Theodor W. Adorno There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
    Theodor W. Adorno
    German philosopher, critic and composer (1903 - 1969)
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