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How to use the word falsehood in a Sentence?

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My formula for greatness in man is! amor fati: the fact that a man wishes nothing to be different, either in front of him or behind him, or for all eternity. Not only must the necessary be borne, and on no account concealed,—all idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity,—but it must also be loved....

Friedrich Nietzsche

added by JokerGem
6 months ago

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Michel de Montaigne

added by Normando
1 year ago

Don't fear the truth, it isn't hard. Don't embrace falsehood, it is hard.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

If you love falsehood it will love you back, and you don't want to see it love you back.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

The hardness of truth is nothing compared to hardness as a result of falsehood.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

Unless we bring falsehood to rest, we will never rest.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.

John Dryden

added by Normando
2 years ago

When McCarthy finally reached the President on January 6 and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the riot, the President initially repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol, mcCarthy refuted that and told the President that these were Trump supporters. That's when, according to McCarthy, the President said :' Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.'.

Herrera Beutler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Everyone lies. It's not a sad fact, I don't think. Barely even a fact at all. Just...a reality. Something that was always true and will always continue to be true. It's something we all accept, whether we want to admit it or not. We all lie. Every one of us. And it's not just a one-time thing either. It's constant. We do it over and over again. And why wouldn't we? Parents lie to their kids, teach them how to lie right back to them, breeding a new generation of people born into distortion, born into a world of deceit and falsehood disguised as reality. And what can you expect from them? Can you really expect them to turn out pure and innocent when they're constantly being fed their parents' inventions, their teachers' stories? They pick up on those things. I did, at least. Maybe it was just me, though. It's not something you grow out of. As you get older, you keep on lying. You lie about everything, to everyone, at one point or another. You lie about your career when your parents ask how happy you are staying in your dead-end office cubicle counting down the seconds until you can go home and start the cycle of monotony over again. You lie to your spouse promising you'll love them till the end of time, not realizing that sooner or later, that love will run out. And not just for them, for anyone and anything. It never lasts. Nothing does. You lie to strangers when they ask you what you believe, what you pray to, what you curse when things don't work out, spouting some scripted verse you learned as a child and stapled into your head, reciting lines you don't really understand to people you don't really care about, if only to convince yourself that you really do have a clue, that you aren't just flying blind in a sea of the unknown. And then there are the lies that stand out over all the others. The lies we tell ourselves. There's something different about them, something...bitter. Lies you tell to other people, they breeze in, announce themselves and then float right back out. They never linger in your head for longer than it took to talk to the person, discarding themselves as unimportant the second that person leaves your line of sight, never to be seen or thought of again. But the lies we tell ourselves, they don't leave. They don't breeze right back out. They linger, hover before your eyes, tracing over each and every detail until it's burned in your head, until you can recreate it over and over again with perfect precision, not a single word out of place, until that lie has completely overtaken you, washing away anything and everything until it is all that remains. Until it is nothing but the truth. Those lies are the most powerful...the most dangerous. Because unlike the lies we throw at others, the lies we tell ourselves are so much louder, so much brighter, so much more painful. When you can't live with what's in front of you, so you have to create something else, a new reality for you to live in and accept as truth. Because it is the truth. It's the truth you want. And at the end of the day...what else matters? Certainly not the little fib you woke up telling yourself. After all, what harm can come from one little lie? In hindsight, we both should have known it could never be that simple.

RayRox360

added by Multiverse-Goddess
2 years ago

There lies often falsehood beneath a pretty skin.

Proverb

added by anonymous
2 years ago

The predicate of the nation’s problems - and the party’s problems - going forward is that too many Republicans have promoted the falsehood that the election was stolen.

Rob Stutzman

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I think that's a total falsehood.

The Hope clinic administrator

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

For the first time, the existing [Israeli] settlements are recognized in writing, which lends to the falsehood that we were an occupying nation all these years.

Scott Feldman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only. Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
4 years ago

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.

Plato

added by Normando
4 years ago

When your castle is constructed on utter falsehood, one of the things you have to do over time is take all of the power out of the truth.

Jim Himes

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I understood that my recounting in my book A Time for Truth the threats he made in the 2009 Texas Attorney General race—and the disparaging remarks he made about President George H.W. Bush—would cause him some discomfort, but I never imagined that his response would be a straight-out falsehood. It's disappointing; this is why people are so cynical about politics, because too many people are willing to lie.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

These sorts of excesses, evidence of falsehood in his declaration of assets ... are incredibly serious.

Alejandro Encinas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

All of us have a responsibility to refute the notion that groups like ISIL somehow represent Islam, because that is a falsehood that embraces the terrorist narrative.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Walter Savage Landor

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Hosea Ballou

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou

added by anonymous
10 years ago

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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