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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.
 
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The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
 
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.



David Hume:
 
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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
 
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
 
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Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
 
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There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
 
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
 
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Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
 
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Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
 
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Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
 
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Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted
 
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The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.
 
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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
 
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
 
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.


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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
 
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t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
 
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