Think about how much falsehood and deceit there is in the world! How much exaggeration! How many untruths are added to a simple story! How many things are left out, if it does not serve the speaker’s interest to tell them! How few there are around us of whom we can say, that we trust their word without question!

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.