Truth
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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
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.
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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