Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
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People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.
Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
