“There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.”
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Writing for the Theatre (1962)
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playwright from England 1930–2008Related quotes
“We can never add more truth to what is true already, nor make that true which is false.”
p, 125
The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests (1688)
“To what degree is something true or false?”
Attributed to Zadeh in: " What is Fuzzy Logic? http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/24_folder/24_articles/24_fuzzywhat.html" in: Azerbaijan international Vol 2.4 (Winter 1994). p. 47
This quote is introduced as "The question Zadeh always insists upon asking".
1990s
Quote from Tiny Surrealism: Salvador Dalí and the Aesthetics of the Small, Roger Rothman, 2012 UNP-Nebraska.
Quotes of Salvador Dali, Miscellaneous
Nobel Prize lecture (12 December 1976)
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Context: A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part I, p.36 (1881) Tr. Friedlander
“Sentences are not as such either true or false”
Austin (1962) Sense and Sensibilia p. 111.
“Wisdom's first progress is to take a view
What's decent or indecent, false or true.”
Source: Of Prudence (1668), line 1
“what time is it? its is by every star
a different time, and each most falsely true…”
Source: Selected Poems