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“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign of truth.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“And it is evident that it is not less repugnant that falsity or imperfection, in so far as it is imperfection, should proceed from God, than that truth or perfection should proceed from nothing.” René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
“Falsity consists solely in the privation of knowledge which inadequate ideas involve” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false,—it is impalpable,—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat;” René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
“He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“It is now some years since I detected how many were the false beliefs that I had from my earliest youth admitted as true, and how doubtful was everything I had since constructed on this basis” René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
“Never . . . be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices . . . and I can always be hopeful of you.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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