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"Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical."
"Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely."
"When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete."
"The truth is in the details."
"Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought."
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges."
"The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold"
"The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere."
"The truth is never pretty."
"Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble."
"Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!"
"The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is."
"The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come."
"Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it."
"Truth is always the first casualty of war."
"Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet."
"It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood."
"The meaning of religious truth is hope."
"The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away."
"Wherever the truth is injured, defend it."
