It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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March 31, 1778, p. 372.Samuel Johnson
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
Leonardo da Vinci
If people differ in an absolutely general way in their estimations of epistemic relevance, and if we follow the holism of meaning and individuate intentional states by way of the totality of their epistemic bonds, the consequence will be that two people (or, for that matter, two temporal sections of the same person) will never be in the same intentional state. Therefore, two people can never be subsumed under the same intentional generalizations. And, therefore, intentional generalization can never be successful. And, therefore again, there is no hope for an intentional psychology.
Jerry Fodor
Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues.
Leonardo da Vinci
Cling to truth and it turns into falsehood. Understand falsehood and it turns into truth. Truth and falsehood are two sides of the same coin. Neither accept one nor reject the other.
Ryokan
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