"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"
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"The most familiar precepts are not always the truest."
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"Truth is a point of view about things."
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"The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein."
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"Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion."
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"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
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"Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered."
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"The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth."
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"You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth."
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"For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
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"The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent."
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"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."
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"You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies"."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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"Truth is always paradoxical."
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"I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced."
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"Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
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"Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ourselves without altering it, "like a bird caught with a limestick." But the reality is, every truth we manage to know is altered, deformed by our very "encheiresis naturae," by the act of our taking-in-hand of nature (to borrow the alchemists' phrase from Goethe's Faust)."
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"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne."
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"Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?"
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