#truths

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#associates #his #ideas #interests #logic

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. ↗

— William Gurnall

#faith #gospel #justifying #naked #truths

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#never #self-evident #shall #these #truths

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#eyes #result #sphinx #truth #truths

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#must #number #proportionate #soul #truths

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#end #more #specific #touching #truths

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here. ↗

— Tom Hopkins

#already #anyway #being #call #done

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#basis #british #declaration #english #formulate

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

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