Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
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The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
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Most jokes state a bitter truth.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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'No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.'
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In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world.
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The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
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The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.
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Above all, words must be recognized as symbolic pointers to truth, not objective containers of truth.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
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Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.
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The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
