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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. ↗

— George Santayana

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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. ↗

— George Santayana

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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. ↗

— George Santayana

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It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

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I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it. ↗

— Adam Savage

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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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