“Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or less necessary to all”
Henry Brooks Adams
“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.”
Hosea Ballou
“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth”
Aristotle
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal
“Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.”
Georges Braque
“Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another”
Aleister Crowley