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We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Walter Lippmann
Truth, Truth Is, Thousand

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Walter Lippmann
Truth, Errors, Myth
Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.68, Courier Corporation

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Walter Lippmann
Truth, Honesty, Simple
Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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