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

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

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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"Sometimes dead is better."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."

John Green, American Author

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"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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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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"We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time."

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"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."

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"Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being."

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"Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"

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"We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time."

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

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"To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics."

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