"One may gain one truth at the expense of another."
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"The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds."
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"We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting."
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"Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true."
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"A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking."
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"It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for."
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"There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born."
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"The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions."
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"Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer."
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"If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it."
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"One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right."
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"If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!"
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"Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth."
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"God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!"
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"I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock."
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"I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones."
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"The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy."
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"How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb."
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"Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart."
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"Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet."
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