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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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- Love
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
- Knowledge
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
- Man
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
- Nothing
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
- Compress
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Every time you do a true story - and I've done a few - you have to look in the mirror and say, 'That's close enough. I'm comfortable with this.' You're always going to compress time; you're going to change the order of things. But I don't think you want to tell a big lie. You want to think that you're embracing the truth.
- Know
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The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.
- Imagination
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
- Earth
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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- Seeing
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
- Growth
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Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.
- Life
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020