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"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."
"I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music."
"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth."
"The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth."
"I am always going to be true to myself."
"Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them."
"A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society."
"Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this."
"The truth is, the Universe will always take care of you."
"Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things."
"The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth."
"Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action."
"I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it."
"The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth."
"Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb."
"There is nothing as boring as the truth."
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the georgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry."
"To live outside the law, you must be honest."
"The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode"
"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience."
