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Full Idea
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Gist of Idea
Convictions, more than lies, are the great enemy of truth
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 483)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.234
A Reaction
Love this one. Especially in western democracies in the 2020s. If we value truth, we must be fallibilists.
19072 | In the deeper sense of truth, to be untrue resembles being bad; badness is untrue to a thing's nature [Hegel] |
24075 | Convictions, more than lies, are the great enemy of truth [Nietzsche] |
4548 | Only because there is thought is there untruth [Nietzsche] |
18305 | To love truth, you must know how to lie [Nietzsche] |
16477 | Asserting not-p is saying p is false [Russell] |
5417 | A good theory of truth must make falsehood possible [Russell] |
21623 | True and false are not symmetrical; false is more complex, involving negation [Williamson] |