#truths

I've always been suspicious of collective truths. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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All great truths begin as blasphemies. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

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