"My way of joking is to tell the truth"
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"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor."
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"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."
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"The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer."
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"It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound."
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"Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . ."
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"Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment."
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"Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through."
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"Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center."
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"The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity."
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"Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves."
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"Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science."
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"Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it."
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"The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality."
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"I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth."
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"Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath. What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?"
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"Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice."
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"Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off."
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"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."
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"If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth."
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