“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
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“Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.”
“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”
“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.”
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.”
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.”
“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.”
“The object of the superior man is truth.”
“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”
“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”
“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”
“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”
“Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.”
“Silence is the mother of truth.”