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There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.

The Search: Finding Your Inner Power, Your Potential
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

The Buddha Said...: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties
There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

The Human Stain
You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Portnoy's Complaint
It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.

The Trial
What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.
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