- Man
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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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- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- Life Is A
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
- Hegemony
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't argue with the truth.
- Guaranteeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020