"Language is the house of the truth of Being."

Truth, Being, Language

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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 great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

Stephen King, American Author

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"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

Stephen King, American Author

Truth, Fear, Imagination, Curiosity

"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."

Stephen King, American Author

Truth, Fear, Wealth, Loss, Nature

"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

Truth, Habit, Addiction, Memory, Change

"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

Truth, Riddle, Nothing, Death, Poverty

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Truth, History, Poetry

"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

Truth, Wisdom, Folly, Evil, Death

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"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history."

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"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."

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"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."

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"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."

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"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

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"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."

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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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"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history."

"True time is four-dimensional."

"Only a god can save us."

"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism."

"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history."

"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."

"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."

"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."

"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."