| Re: What is truth,can we know it?
If truth is antithetical to a deliberately promulgated untruth, what I was taught from childhood is that a lie will circumnavigate any number of worlds as many times before the truth gets so much as an opportunity to put it's shoes on... Somebody authored that but it wasn't me. Though I believe it's the truth.
Another one is:
"Although the devil be the father of lies, he has, like other great inventors, lost much of his reputation by the improvements that have been made upon him." - J. Swift.
Good post. Thank you
- RP
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(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words.
"All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus
"Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein
"Particles give me a headache." - Ibid
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