- Eyes
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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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- Great Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
- Enhances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020