"The object of the superior man is truth."
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"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
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"It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession."
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"It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true."
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"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike."
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"Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it."
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"Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light."
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"As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre."
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"What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess."
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"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
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"The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted."
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"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error."
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"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth."
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"In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many."
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"No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see."
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"Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes."
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"There is no god higher than truth."
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"Our own life has to be our message."
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"The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself."
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