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". . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth."
"Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul."
"You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?"
"Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man."
"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
". . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment."
"New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths."
"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."
"The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia"
"The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement."
"Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart."
"Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified."
"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
"I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it."
"Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples."
"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."
"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people."
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world."
"Truth is exact correspondence with reality."
"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
