“La vérité et le mensonge ne sont jamais loin l’un de l’autre et rarement la vérité triomphe.”
En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages, 1998
Les confessions d'un homme en trop, 1990
“La vérité et le mensonge ne sont jamais loin l’un de l’autre et rarement la vérité triomphe.”
En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages, 1998
If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train pull it ; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly : it is light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old Proverb, “A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.”
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Les Grecs et l’Irrationnel (The Greeks and the Irrational), 1951
Le bluff technologique, 1988
But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
en
De la liberté
Fables (1668–1679)