"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves."
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"Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence."
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"Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?"
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"There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
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"When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man."
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"The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper."
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"I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth."
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"Truth is a great flirt."
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"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
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"The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth."
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"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."
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"Lying can never save us from another lie."
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"Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
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"The truth is always the strongest argument."
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"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth."
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"There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation."
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"This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are."
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"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are."
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"The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance."
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