Source: The Man Without Qualities
“We can never add more truth to what is true already, nor make that true which is false.”
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) French writer, satirist and philosopher of enlightenment
p, 125
The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests (1688)
“The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Weekly Address https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/08/21/weekly-address-president-obama-challenges-politicians-benefiting-citizen (21 August 2010) <br class="br">2010
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
" VIII. ON "LET A HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOSSOM LET A HUNDRED SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT CONTEND" AND "LONG-TERM COEXISTENCE AND MUTUAL SUPERVISION" "
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Letter to Allen N. Ford (11 August 1846), reported in Roy Prentice Basler, ed., Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings (1990 [1946])
1840s
“Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.”
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) British philosopher
No. 6.
Aphorisms (1930)
“To what degree is something true or false?”
Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921–2017) Electrical engineer and computer scientist
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 <br class="br">This quote is introduced as "The question Zadeh always insists upon asking". <br class="br">1990s
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) expressionist painter
Vol. 1: 'My beautiful One, My Unique!', pp. 130-140
1895 - 1905, Lettres à un Inconnu, 1901 – 1905; Museo Communale, Ascona
“The search for necessary truths, truths that are not only true, but they couldn’t have been false.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) Philosopher
In the Veery journal interview in 1996, in reply to the question of "What is the most rewarding aspect of philosophy?" presented by Veery editor Steven Vita, later reprinted in 1997 in the Austin American-Statesman and then quoted from in The New York Times obituary entitled “Charles Hartshorne, Theologian, Is Dead; Proponent of an Activist God Was 103.”
