"Faith therefore is to believe that which you do not see, truth is to see what you have believed."
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Category: Truth
"The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth."
"Truth, like climate, is common property ..."
"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."
"All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates."
"What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief."
"To revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.... All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple--a few plain words--"My Heart Laid Bare." But--this little book must be true to its title."
"What I here propound is true: ... if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will "rise again to ... Life Everlasting."
"He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth."
"Nothing is higher than the love of truth."
"Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying."
"It is my opinion that time brings all things to fruition; by time all things are made plain; time is the father of truth."
"It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth."
"Where there are no rights, there are no duties. To tell the truth is thus a duty; but it is a duty only in respect to one who hasa right to the truth."
"The predicate of truth-value of a proposition, therefore, is a mere fictive quality; its place is in an ideal world of science only, whereas actual science cannot make use of it. Actual science instead employs throughout the predicate of weight."
"You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect."
"In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact."
"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way."
"When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life when I felt incredibly happy. Life was full. I seemed productive. Then I thought,"Am I really happy or am I merely masking a deep depression with frantic activity?" If I don't know such basic things about myself, who does?"
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