Epicurus (c. 341-270 BCE)
“Falsehood and error always depend upon the intrusion of opinion when a fact awaits confirmation or the absence of contradiction…”
- From Epicurus’ “Letter to Herodotus,” translated by Eugene Michael O’Connor in The Essential Epicurus (The Big Nest / Interactive Media, 2014). Epicurus’ “Letter to Herodotus” and this quote can also be found in the Lives of Eminent Philosophers (10.1.50) by Diogenes Laertius (c. 3rd century).
