"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
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"Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness."
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"Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence."
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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded."
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"We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession."
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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."
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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
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"The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons."
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"The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths."
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"Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation."
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"Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not."
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"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
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"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence"
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"Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad."
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"The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin - and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost."
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"All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords."
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"History has its truth; and so has legend hers."
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"Wherever the truth is injured, defend it."
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"Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."
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"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."
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