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"It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are."
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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."
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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."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes dead is better."
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Personal Development
"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
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Personal Development
"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
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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."
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"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."
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"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."
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"It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are."
Truth
"Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved."
Work
"I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me."
Abortion
"We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn."
Business
"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
Knowledge
"In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective."
Education
"Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply."
History
"It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories."
Philosophy
"I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact."
Abortion
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