genuineness quotes

The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability.We say that a sentence isfactually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to 44 verify the proposition which it purports to express that is, if he knows what observations would lead him, under certain conditions, to accept the proposition as being true, or reject it as being false.

- SirAlfred Jules Ayer
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.1

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity.Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley
  Those Barren Leaves, pt.1, ch.1.