#absolute truth

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ↗

— Max Lerner

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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh. ↗

— Carl Reiner

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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. ↗

— Hu Shih

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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

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This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat. ↗

— Herman Gorter

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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

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