The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
Thomas Sowell, “Big Lies in Politics” (Townhall, July 31, 2012).
I have said that almost every president of the last 100 years deserved to be impeached, but I never suggested any of these people should be charged and tried in court.
Brion McClanahan, “What’s at Stake in the Trump Immunity Case?” May 8, 2024.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle, On the Heavens.
Πολλοὶ πολυμαθέες νοῦν οὐκ ἔχουσιν.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Democritus (c. 460 BC — c. 370 BC), pre-Socratic philosopher.
It is wrong to speak of coming into being and passing away, for nothing comes into being or passes away, but all is an aggregation or secretion of pre-existent things: so that all-becoming might more correctly be called becoming-mixed, and all corruption, becoming-separate.
Anaxagoras (c. 500 – c. 428 B.C.), pre-Socratic philosopher.
Man is a universe in little.
Democritus (c. 460 BC — c. 370 BC), pre-Socratic philosopher. Image of the Andromeda galaxy, NASA.