True And False Quotes

• True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

  Robert Musil

  People, Decision, Want

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.891, Pan Macmillan

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• The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

  John Bunyan

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Religious, Catholic

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• Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Religious, Atheist

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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. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 4 (1651)

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• He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ideas, Adequate

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• The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

  Hannah Arendt

  People, Fiction, Facts

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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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Speech, Attributes

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 4 (1651)

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• We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

  Arne Tiselius

  Science, Mind, World

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• We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Circles, Worry, Anxiety

  Ingmar Bergman (1956). “The seventh seal: a film”

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• You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true. Find out what is true and false in your environment with all its oppressions and cruelties, and then you will find out what is true. Why do you want philosophies?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Christian

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti 1934-1935: What Is Right Action”, Editorial Kier

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• Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

  Mason Cooley

  Littles, Language, Invention

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• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  Harold Pinter

  Real, True Or False, Literature

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008”, p.218, Faber & Faber

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• It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Fire, Faithful

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• Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Weed, Flower, Differences

  Edwin Paxton Hood (1885). “Bye-path Meadow”

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• Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shadow, Essentials, Degrees

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.236, Modern Library

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• When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wish, Orthodoxy, Speak

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.317, e-artnow

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• Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

  John Adams

  Passion, Differences, People

  John Adams, Daniel LEONARD, Jonathan SEWALL (1819). “Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc”, p.11

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• The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

  Paul Tillich

  Character, Evil, Creative

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• The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.The

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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• As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Meaningful, Freedom, Real

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.67, Penguin

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• The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

  Fiona Apple

  Way, Rock N Roll, Music Is

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• AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer to the truth? Is it so clear that they are your own? Is one an authority on oneself? But that isn't the question that concerns me. The real question is: In such stories, is there really a difference between true and false? In stories about the outside, surely. But when we set out to understand someone on the inside? Is that a trip that ever comes to an end? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

  Pascal Mercier

  Real, Differences, Soul

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• True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

  John Donne

  Love, Time, Writing

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

  George R. R. Martin

  Differences, Life And Death, Steel

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.432, Bantam

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