"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."
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"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."
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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
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"The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it."
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"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own."
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"Truth lives on in the midst of deception."
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"When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity."
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"We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather."
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"A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove."
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"This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies."
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"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"
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"Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth."
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"Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant."
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"The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe."
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"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."
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"Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship."
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"The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible."
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"The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors."
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"Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it."
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