Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
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.
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
Mastered by deadly passions, Rigaud has dug a gulf at your feet; he has laid snares which you could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans in his revolt; and to succeed in his object, he has employed falsehood and seduction.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
