"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."
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"I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing."
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"I died for Beauty--but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room"
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"Truth - is as old as God-."
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"The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth."
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"It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth."
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"To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want."
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"Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome."
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"Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man."
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"A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error."
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"I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time."
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"As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence."
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"The truth--a hideous spectacle!"
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"When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet."
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"The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems."
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"There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths."
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"Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics."
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"Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked."
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"The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression."
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"In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him."
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