"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."

Truth, Desire, Reality, Seeking

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"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."

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"The fact differentiates the fake."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

Happiness

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

Happiness

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."

Relationship

"And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face."

Memory

"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."

Wisdom

"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."

Leadership

"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

Politics

"Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness."

Social

"In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist."

Morality

"No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition."

Morality