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"The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate."
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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."
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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."
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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."
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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."
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"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."
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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
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"You have nothing to lose, only to live."
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain."
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"There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits."
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
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"The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature."
Morality

"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
Love

"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."
Philosophy

"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
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"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
Time

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
People

"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
Society
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