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To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.Collection: Truth
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.Collection: Truth
To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.Collection: Truth
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it.Collection: Truth
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.Collection: Truth
Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiencesCollection: Truth
The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefsCollection: Truth
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world providesCollection: Truth
In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in commonCollection: Truth
The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.Collection: Truth
People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.Collection: Truth
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.Collection: Truth
The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for to be true means only to perform this marriage-function.Collection: Truth
You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.Collection: Truth
With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.Collection: Truth
History has its truth; and so has legend hers.Collection: Truth
Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.Collection: Truth
Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.Collection: Truth
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.Collection: Truth
Truth between candid minds can never do harm.Collection: Truth
Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.Collection: Truth
Truth allows no choice.Collection: Truth
Tell troth and shame the devil.Collection: Truth
I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.Collection: Truth
'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truthCollection: Truth
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.Collection: Truth
Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .Collection: Truth
On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.Collection: Truth
If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.Collection: Truth
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.Collection: Truth
It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.Collection: Truth
Whatever you say about something, it is not.Collection: Truth
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.Collection: Truth
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.Collection: Truth
Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.Collection: Truth
Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.Collection: Truth
The real truths are those that can be invented.Collection: Truth
The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.Collection: Truth
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.Collection: Truth
Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.Collection: Truth
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.Collection: Truth
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.Collection: Truth
Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.Collection: Truth
Nothing is real.Collection: Truth
Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.Collection: Truth
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.Collection: Truth
It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.Collection: Truth
The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.Collection: Truth
Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know.Collection: Truth