"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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"The fact differentiates the fake."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Truth, Fact, Reality

"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Truth, Pain, Reality, Discovery

"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Truth, Darkness, Falsehood, Light

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Truth, Experience, Knowledge, Personal

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Truth, Perception, Differences

"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Truth, Peace, Guidance, Sharing

"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

Mark Twain, American Author

Truth, Memory, Falsehood, Reality

"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Truth, Pessimism, Life, Reality

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

Truth, Lies, Self, Deception

"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Truth, Failure, Life, Experience, Learning

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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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"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."

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"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."

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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."

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"Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart."

Time

"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."

"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."

Explore more quotes by Emile M. Cioran

"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."

"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."

"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."

"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."

"Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas."

"Under each formula lies a corpse."

"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."

"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."

"Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart."

"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."