"No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job."
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"The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth."
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"'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its "collision with error." If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.'"
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"Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it."
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"When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down."
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"Duality is always secretly unity."
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"Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances."
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"Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions."
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"To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it."
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"Truths may clash without contradicting each other."
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"We do not know a truth without knowing its cause."
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"Error is created; truth is eternal."
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"Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes"
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"Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one"
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"Truth happens to an idea"
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"A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock"
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"Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract"
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"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system"
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"What, can the devil speak true?"
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"Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty."
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