"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
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"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
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"The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing."
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"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."
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"It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character."
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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."
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"When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important."
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"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth."
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"The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!"
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"Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies."
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"To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth."
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"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
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"It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth."
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"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
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"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say."
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"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
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"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
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"The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love."
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