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

— Kenneth R. Miller

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ↗

— William Osler

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