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"In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact."
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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."

"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."

"People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit."

"Science is a careful investigation."

"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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"All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles."

"As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost."

"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."

"To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed."

"You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect."

"When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it."
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