"Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind."
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"It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else."
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"Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!"
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"I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free."
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"One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed."
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"Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive."
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"A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts."
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"A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans."
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"The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out."
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"Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren."
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"For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away."
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"Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers."
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"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again."
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"Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call."
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"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."
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"Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality."
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"Truth in our ideas means their power to work."
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"Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do."
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"Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them."
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"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
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