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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
– Anais Nin
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
– Oliver North
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
– Pablo Neruda
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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
– George Orwell
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
– George Orwell
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
– George Orwell
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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
– Sir William Osler
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It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
– James Otis
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
– Ovid
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I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
– Chuck Palahniuk
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
– Blaise Pascal
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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
– Blaise Pascal
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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
– Blaise Pascal
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
– Blaise Pascal
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Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
– Blaise Pascal
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
– Saint Patrick
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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
– Laurence J. Peter
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But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
– Albert Pike
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The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
– Albert Pike
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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
– Peace Pilgrim
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
– Pindar
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It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.
– Robert M. Pirsig
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I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.
– Brad Pitt
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
– Plato
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
– Alexander Pope
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
– Alexander Pope
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
– Elvis Presley
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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
– Charles Sanders Pierce
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Truth comes out in wine.
– Pliny
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
– Dan Rather
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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
– Anthony Robbins
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To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
– Auguste Rodin
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If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
– Will Rogers
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
– Jim Rohn
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
– Jean Rostand
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
– John Ruskin
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People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
– Robert J. Ringer
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Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
– Don Miguel Ruiz
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
– Bayard Rustin
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
– Cornelius Tacitus
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
– Cornelius Tacitus
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
– William Temple
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
– Margaret Thatcher
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
– Cal Thomas
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
– Henry David Thoreau
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
– Henry David Thoreau
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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
– Leo Tolstoy
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
– Leo Tolstoy
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
– Lily Tomlin
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
– Lily Tomlin
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
– Harry S. Truman
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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
– Harry S. Truman
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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
– Harry S. Truman
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The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
– Lana Turner
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
– Mark Twain
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
– Mark Twain
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
– Mark Twain
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
– Mark Twain
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I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
– William Tyndale
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All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
– Morihei Ueshiba
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The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
– Peter Ustinov
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Veiling truth in mystery.
– Virgil
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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
– Voltaire
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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
– Voltaire
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
– Denis Waitley
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
– Daniel Webster
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
– Simone Weil
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
– Simone Weil
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
– Orson Welles
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
– H. G. Wells
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
– Walt Whitman
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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
– Elie Wiesel
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The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
– Edward O. Wilson
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
– Oprah Winfrey
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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
– Virginia Woolf
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
– Virginia Woolf
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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
– Hugh Walpole
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
– William Butler Yeats
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
– William Butler Yeats
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Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
– Brigham Young
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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
– Emile Zola
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
– Jane Austen
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
– George Gordon Byron
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
– Thomas Jefferson
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
– G. K. Chesterton
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
– Marie Curie
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