"True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience"
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"Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship."
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"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance."
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"Truth hath a quiet breast."
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"Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false."
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"The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed."
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"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
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"Truth allows no choice."
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"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth."
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"It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction."
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."
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"History is the lie commonly agreed upon."
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"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."
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"Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true."
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"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least."
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"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."
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"All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth."
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"The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death."
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"Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him."
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"It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent."
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