I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
Flannery O'ConnorRead
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from religious liberty without danger, and ultimately without destruction to both. Wherever religious liberty exists, it will, first or last, bring in and establish political liberty.
Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
Speak the truth._x000D_ _x000D_ Give whatever you can._x000D_ _x000D_ Never be angry._x000D_ _x000D_ These three steps will lead you_x000D_ _x000D_ Into the presence of the gods.
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.
The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.
The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering
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