"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."

Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Roman Philosopher

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"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."

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

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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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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"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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"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."

"The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression."

"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."

"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."

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