“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.”
Hosea Ballou
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal
“All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth”
Aristotle
“Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.”
Georges Braque
“History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.”
“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”
William James