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This does not, however, entirely satisfy me. Error is not a pure negative; it is a privation, i.e., the absence of some knowledge that I ought to possess; and on considering the nature of God, it does not seem possible that He should have given me any faculty which is not perfect of its kind, that is to say which is anywise wanting in the perfection proper to it.


René Descartes


#falsehood #philosophy #truth #nature

I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.


Sherwood Smith


#falsehood #social-weapons #truth #romantic

There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have understood: that for every genuine existence, for every real manifestation and occurrence, there are are ten thousand falsities. Before you meet what or who is genuine, you will first have met, or known of, what is fake; and ten thousand times so! There is no need to feel disappointments, any number below ten thousand deceptions renders you a lucky person! And you ask why is there a need for this to happen? Well, if you have not known what is false first, there is no way to understand what then comes which is truth. What is lesser is so afraid of what is genuine, that it finds it necessary to imitate and duplicate that imitation ten thousand times over, for fear that you will finally meet what is real. The more important that one existence is, the more imitations there are in the world.


C. JoyBell C.


#disappointments #fake #false #genuine #imitations

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.


Augusten Burroughs


#false #never #note #novel

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.


Matthew Arnold


#false #impossible #knows #make #port

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.


Paula Abdul


#false #high #i #lie #life

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.


William R. Alger


#emphasis #exaggeration #false #true

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.


Ambrose Bierce


#about #account #brought #events #false

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.


Hosea Ballou


#cowardice #falsehood #truth

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.


Frederick Douglass


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