"Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed."
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"Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else."
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"The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies."
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"This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity."
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"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"
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"Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light."
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"We are all afraid of the truth."
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"Homely truth is unpalatable."
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"My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe."
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"It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't."
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"But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it."
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"there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves."
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"I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated."
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"Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems."
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"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."
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"The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn."
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"I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events."
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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
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"All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty."
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"You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth."
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