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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

John Edward Redmond

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.