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". . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth."
"On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans."
"Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men."
"I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him."
"The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written."
"When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it."
"What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up."
"We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them."
"It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about realizing what's true for you, through awareness and unconditional self-love. Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of you, not the other way around."
"Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object."
"The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes."
"But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides."
"No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep."
"Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it"
"Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'"
"In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty."
"If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God."
"Truth reveals itself in beauty."
"There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men."
"Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe."
