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"Until we realize that things might not be, we cannot realize that things are. Until we see the background of darkness, we cannot admire the light as a single and created thing. As soon as we have seen that darkness, all light is lightening, sudden, blinding, and divine. Until we picture nonentity we underrate the victory of God, and can realize none of the trophies of His ancient war. It is one of the million wild jests of truth that we know nothing until we know nothing."
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"The fact differentiates the fake."
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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."
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"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
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"My truth could be very different than your truth."
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"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"
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"The truth can do years of work in seconds."
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"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."
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"People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit."
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"Science is a careful investigation."
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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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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
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"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."
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"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified."
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"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
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"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching."
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"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."
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"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."
God

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
Architecture

"The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists. The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed. We have to trace the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men on at last to intellectual fanaticism and intellectual crime. We were only just in time to prevent the assassination at Hartlepool, and that was entirely due to the fact that our Mr. Wilks (a smart young fellow) thoroughly understood a triolet."
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"One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star."
Identity
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