Quotes 21 till 40 of 40.
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable, is made up of civility and falsehood.
Thoughts (1754) -
The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921 -
The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
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There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.
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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
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True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
Leviathan (1651) -
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Pensees (1669) -
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
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Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
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