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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects…
— Charles Francis Richter
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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
— Robertson Davies
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The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but…
— Unknown Author
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Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."
— Diogenes
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If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is…
— Adyashanti
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The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
— William Cowper
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Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a…
— Alexander Berkman
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Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
— James Agee
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy…
— Imre Lakatos
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Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.
— Hugh Latimer
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The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
— Mahatma Gandhi
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