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Ideas for 'The Social Contract (tr Cress)', 'Brainchildren' and 'Human, All Too Human'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

14853	Truth finds fewest champions not when it is dangerous, but when it is boring [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: The champions of truth are hardest to find, not when it is dangerous to tell it, but rather when it is boring.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 506)

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 7. Falsehood

24075	Convictions, more than lies, are the great enemy of truth [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 483)
	A reaction: Love this one. Especially in western democracies in the 2020s. If we value truth, we must be fallibilists.