"Facts are many, but the truth is one."
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."
"What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth."
"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
"Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it."
"The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought."
"I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting."
"Truth is the first of jewels."
"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."
"The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary."
"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."
"Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so."
"Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life."
"Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you."
"Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism."
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion."