- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to share knowledge about things I've learned over the years with a younger generation that is seeking the truth.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Way is the beginning of the ten thousand things and the guiding thread of truth and falsity.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020