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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.


Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
ISADORA DUNCAN I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau - If birds confabulate or no
WILLIAM COWPER Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jea...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world h...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
GEORGES BRAQUE To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The gospel according to Jean Jacques.
THOMAS CARLYLE However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu...
SIMON MAINWARING I have always been interested in this THOMAS A. EDISON The ocean has only one taste, the taste of salt. Truth has only one taste, the taste of freedom.
BUDDHA The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSE What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another...
NIELS BOHR The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Lie has thousand faces. Truth has only one face.
KOWSALAPATHY It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON He knows it's not permanent. Stack has been one of our best hustle players. He's wrapped up in that ...
AVERY JOHNSON Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of...
EDUARD HANSLICK It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others
MARQUIS DE SADE As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
GEORGES BATAILLE I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
GEORGE BATAILLE The redefinition of truth has but one outcome; eventual chaos!
TRAVIS J HEDRICK There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If somet...
LUCIAN FREUD Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.
TINY TIM Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.
His name, as I ought to have told you before,
Is reall...
T.S. ELIOT You don't know what in reality has happen...!?
DEYTH BANGER God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
DEYTH BANGER Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood...
TRYON EDWARDS Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
TRYON EDWARDS Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood
TRYON EDWARDS The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity...
LUTHER BURBANK Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization'...
STEVE WYNN It has that air, ... It would be surprising if it was Jean Chretien that leaked that part of the rep...
GILLES DUCEPPE Jenson has been beaten by all of them apart from Takuma Sato and Jacques Villeneuve .
EDDIE IRVINE Infinity has its limits.
HELENE LAGERBERG Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
ANNE LINDBERGH A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional an...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Time decides the limits of existence. Nothing can be infinite if it exists in time.
RAHEEL FAROOQ Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey...
SARAH HALL All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element...
HENRY PETROSKI A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like ...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE Jean-Pierre has got until the end of tomorrow to decide whether to appeal.
JOHN BLAKE One s true home is obtained by serving the True One, real Truth comes by being truthful. By falsehoo...
GURU NANAK Love can take one over the clouds, out to space
And also to the depths of the Earth where you ...
LUNA MARYM The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth ...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN She was coming to look on men and women as fellow survivors; well-dissemblers of their woes, who, wi...
SHIRLEY HAZZARD You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.
EVAN PARKER Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again...
JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
JOHN GREEN Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
SAM SHEPPARD A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
EZRA POUND China has always given top priority to the shift of its economic growth mode, but has so far been un...
WU JINGLIAN Falsehood travels faster than truth.
EPHDAN Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its ow...
PAUL DE MAN The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Adam is extremely strong, and he has good balance out there. He has a lot of combinations of pin hol...
DENNIS FRIESTAD Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
NORMAN MCLAREN Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
MILAN KUNDERA A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility — it might be rig...
MANFRED EIGEN Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; a...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
HOSEA BALLOU Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
GEORGE ELIOT Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Scie...
DEYTH BANGER There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.
DEYTH BANGER An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.
SHANNON L. ALDER One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an eq...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth
ARISTOTLE If money has never been a motivating factor in your life and your only motivating factor in life is ...
APURVA GAGLANI Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
MERYL STREEP I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ until only infinity remained of beauty
JOHN ASHBERY There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because i...
NEILS BOHR The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. -Jacques Bénigne Bossuel.
JACQUES BÉNIGNE BOSSUEL Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
OSCAR WILDE Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
OSCAR WILDE Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must ...
ROMANO GUARDINI A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may b...
MANFRED EIGEN A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it ma...
MANFRED EIGEN A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may...
MANFRED EIGEN Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the trut...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do...
LARRY BROWN I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
LUDWIG FEUERBACH The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.
CHARLOTTE-CATHERINE A guest of truth visits you during daylight. Guests of falsehood visit you in the night.
APURVA GAGLANI I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book...
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU God made me and broke the mold.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and ...
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