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To-day we have fewer dogmas, but I think that we have stronger principles. By a dogma I mean a deduction from facts which is only valid under certain conditions, and which becomes untrue if those conditions change. By a principle I mean something that is an eternal and universal truth.
John Buchan
Truth is always a delusion.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)
D.J. MacHale
Why do I live in Israel? Because Israel lives in me, as it lives in all Jews. It is who we are. And those of us lucky enough to recognize this truth and embrace it in all its fullness and depth are the luckiest Jews in the world.
Caroline Glick
The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.--- Charlotte Bronte
Juliet Barker
The Psalmist believed in a personal God, and knew nothing of that modern pantheism which is nothing more than atheism wearing a fig leaf.
Charles H. Spurgeon
I don't impressed if you're a religious person.I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.
Toba Beta
For any truth, if overdone (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.
Vladimir Lenin
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
Armistead Maupin
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
John H. Alexander
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
Robert Graves
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.
Neal Stephenson
A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.
Richard Adams
Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.
Carl L. Becker
All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.
Matt Drudge
Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.
Günter Brus
People stumble over the truth from time to time,but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.
John Granger