Epimenides famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.
The truthful man is usually a liar.
I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
History is the great propagator of doubt.
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.
History is not history unless it is the truth.

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