Truth Quotes
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Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
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A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.
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The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
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You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
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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.
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Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
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It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.
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The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
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I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.
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Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
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My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.
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I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
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I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.
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The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
