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Letter "F" » falsity
«Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.»
«Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
contradiction, falsities, falsity, lack, sign
«The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
absent, falsities, falsity, inconstancy
«We know that we are living in a state of falsity, that all our social and religious form is dead, a crystallized lie.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
crystallize, crystallized, crystallizes, falsities, falsity
«I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of thegreatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and mostobvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsityof conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues,which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
at ease, conclusions, delighted, falsities, falsity, simplest
«Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting 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 an»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
diligently, examine, falsities, falsity, refutation, refutations
«The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
arrival, as a whole, bestiality, daylight, exceptions, falsities, falsity, From Hell, gaps, hydra, limbo
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