in Quotes & Aphorisms (Truth and lies)
A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
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A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.
If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.
He felt very tired, not from the mental effort, but because he had suddenly seen what the world was like, how there are many lies and truths.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Nature is a source of truth. Experience does not ever err, it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.
Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.