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23. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” 24. “Gambling, beer and football filled the horizons of their minds.” 25.
2. “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.” 3. "One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap."
The truth can sometimes be scary! But these truth quotes about its importance will make it easier to swallow. The post 75 Truth Quotes That Will Set You Free appeared first on Reader's Digest.
These ideas about truth and its relation to human language have been particularly influential among postmodern theorists, [4] and "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" is one of the works most responsible for Nietzsche's reputation (albeit a contentious one) as "the godfather of postmodernism." [6]
Since then, The Washington Post ' s fact-checking team has written the 2020 book Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth. The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies. [141] [142] By October 9, 2019, The Washington Post ' s fact-checking team documented that Trump had "made 13,435 false or misleading claims over 993 days". [143]
It was argued in moral theology, and now in ethics, that mental reservation was a way to fulfill obligations both to tell the truth and to keep secrets from those not entitled to know them (for example, because of the seal of the confessional or other clauses of confidentiality). Mental reservation, however, is regarded as unjustifiable without ...
Starting in the mid-1890s, during the final decade of his life, Gérôme made at least four paintings personifying Truth as a nude woman, either thrown into, at the bottom of, or emerging from a well. The imagery arises from a translation of an aphorism of the philosopher Democritus, "Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well". [1]
Moral sense theory (also known as moral sentimentalism) is a theory in moral epistemology and meta-ethics concerning the discovery of moral truths. Moral sense theory typically holds that distinctions between morality and immorality are discovered by emotional responses to experience. Some take it to be primarily a view about the nature of ...