“There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
The Overman Culture (1971)
“When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it.
No, if it isn't in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, "Nothing doing," and refuse to inspect it.”
Good Intentions (1942), Seeing Eye to Eye is Believing
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“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
H 7
Variant translation: The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)
“The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
Context: The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background. Although the point of emphasis may vary, the writer who refuses to sell his opinions is always branded as a mere egoist. He is accused, that is, either of wanting to shut himself up in an ivory tower, or of making an exhibitionist display of his own personality, or of resisting the inevitable current of history in an attempt to cling to unjustified privileges.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Harijan (13 July 1947) p. 232
1940s
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 41e
David L. Norton (1930–1995) American philosopher
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 8
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Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 408.
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Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Source: The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 290