Everything is already there in. . . . " How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that. " - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.
It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else. . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
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.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the. . . abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
