"The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth."

Truth, Fear, Being, Quest

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"The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth."

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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

Truth, Blind

"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

Truth, Power, Thought, Symbol, Character

"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

Truth, Young, Honesty, People

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

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Truth, Death, Life, End

"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

Truth, Knowledge, Denial, Reality

"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

Truth, Errors, Mankind

"Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Truth, Man, Right, Eyes, Heart

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Truth, Nothing, Lose, Live, Freedom

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Truth, Environment, Death, Pollution, Money

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"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."

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"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."

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"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."

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"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."

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"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."

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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

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"Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."

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