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"You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?"
"Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins."
"On every parable you ride to every truth."
"Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life."
"He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty."
"The observer is the observed."
"The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures."
"Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth."
"Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about."
"Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty."
"On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo."
"Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds"
"With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost."
"In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided."
"Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else."
"Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath."
"Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling."
"A myth is a lie that conveys a truth."
"This doesn't seem like one of those 'truth will set you free' situations."
"Deep truth is imageless."
