Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.
Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.
