“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”
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“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”
“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.”
“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.”
“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”
“There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.”
“People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.”
“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.”
“There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.”
“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”
“The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.”
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”
“The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.”
“We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.”
“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”
“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.”
“When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.”
“It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.”
“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”
“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”
“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.”
“Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.”
“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”