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"There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived."
"Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth."
"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
"An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving."
"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us."
"The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It has to be found from moment to moment, in the smile, in the tear, under the dead leaf, in the vagrant thought, in the fullness of love."
"You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's all nonsense. Do you behave? Are you free of fear? Are you free of ambition, greed, envy and the desire to achieve success in every field? If not, you are just playing a game. You are not serious.'"
"The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence."
"If you're going to affirm something, affirm the truth. Then go do something about it."
"Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt."
"Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned."
"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
"There's nothing you can know that isn't known."
"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock."
"It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard."
"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."
"If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth."
"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."
"...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty."
"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
