False or falsehood may refer to:
- False (logic)
- Lie or falsehood, a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement
- Falsity or falsehood, in law, deceitfulness by one party that results in damage to another
- Falsies padding for use in a brassiere to create the appearance of larger breasts
- FALSE, a programming language
- false (Unix), a Unix command
- False (album), an album by Gorefest
- Matthew Dear or False, American DJ and producer
- Falsehood (film), a 2001 American short film starring Marie-Noelle Marquis
Famous quotes containing the word false:
“If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The street is as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The will is one of the chief factors in belief, not that it creates belief, but because things are true or false according to the aspect in which we look at them. The will, which prefers one aspect to another, turns away the mind from considering the qualities of all that it does not like to see; and thus the mind, moving in accord with the will, stops to consider the aspect which it likes and so judges by what it sees.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)