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"The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth."
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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."

"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."

"We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending."
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"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."

"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."

"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."

"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."

"I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done."
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