"A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind."

Truth, Vision, Mankind

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"A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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Stephen King, American Author

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"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

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"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

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"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

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"It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep."

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"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought."

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"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us."

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"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth."

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"Good government is the outcome of private virtue."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

"More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?"

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

"It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep."

"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought."

"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us."

"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth."

"Good government is the outcome of private virtue."

"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."

"All progress is experimental."

"Politics is organized hatred, that is unity."

"Too much agreement kills the chat."