"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it."

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"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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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."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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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."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"You have nothing to lose, only to live."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him."

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"Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art."

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"Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity."

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"In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing."

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"Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live."

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"Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction."

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"Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about."

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"We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence."

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