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"I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it."
"Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth."
"The highest truth cannot be put into words."
"The words of truth are always paradoxical."
"The real truths are those that can be invented."
"The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away."
"Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect"
"the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself."
"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
"Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth."
"One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth."
"Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth."
"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth."
"The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due."
"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."
"Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original."
"For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice."
"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."
"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."
"We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed."
