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The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.
Only reasoncan convinceus ofthosethreefundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mindthat their being is to be perceived or known.
The jazz band can be used for artificial excitement and aphrodisiac purposes, but not for spreading eternal truths.
What, he speaks unseasonable truths sometimes, because he has not wit enough to invent an evasion.
He must teach himself that the basest of all things isto be afraid and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop foranything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomedlove and honour and pityand compassion and sacrifice.
Fromthefirst place of liquid darkness, within thesecond place of air and light, I set down the following record with itsmixture of fact and truths and memories oftruths and its direction always toward theThird Place, where the starting point is myth.
Les ve rite s de couvertes par l'intelligence demeurent ste riles. Truths discovered by intelligence are sterile.
Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favour.
My professionconsists of bringing truths nearer to the point where they explode. 396
It isthe customary fate of new truthsto begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
Abandon yourself to Nature's truths, and let nothing in this world be unknown to you.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The men, the music piercing that solitude And silence, told me truths I had not dreamed, And have forgotten since their beauty passed.
In common truths that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence: truths that wake, To perish never: Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterlyabolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
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