Falsely

Famous quotes containing the word falsely:

    Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.
    Thomas Nagel (b. 1938)

    One word is too often profaned
    For me to profane it,
    One feeling too falsely disdained
    For thee to disdain it;
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)