“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.”
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“Veiling truth in mystery.”
“So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.”
“The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.”
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
“The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.”
“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.”
“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”
“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”
“Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.”
“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.”
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.”
“Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living.”
“A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.”
“A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.”
“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”
“When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.”
“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
“I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.”
“Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.”
“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.”
“Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.”
“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.”
“The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.”