False Quotes

• I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Idea
  • Abuse
  • Truths

• In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Feel
  • Literature
  • Suicide

• To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • True
  • Christian
  • False

• The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Dangerous
  • Faults
  • Discovered

• True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Power
  • Change
  • Struggle

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