#truth

From a higher point of view, untruth has a much worse side than the usual one. It is the foundation of a false world —

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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

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But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

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When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence,

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The most commonplace truth when it floods the whole soul is like a revelation.

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It’s time to tear away the veil of Isis and reveal the mystery. Whoever can’t endure the sight of the goddess, let him flee

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The walking-stick that looks pretty so long as one carries it, but bends as soon as you rest your weight upon it, is

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The unemployed and the starving do not lay claim to truth. They do not say they represent the truth because they are the

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‘Truth’ and the search for truth are no trivial matter; and if a person goes about searching in too human a fashion, I’ll bet

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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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Truth is no road to fortune…

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There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully

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The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to

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If you are emotionally attached to your tribe, religion or political leaning to the point that truth and justice

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But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

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Contingent truths of history can never become the demonstrations of necessary truths of reason.

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“You’re evil ” An anti-Trump song from a few years back.

The truth is introduced – and with that it enters into the process of history. But unfortunately this does not (as so

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There is no ‘a priori’ reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

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There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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