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Love Is Truth (1)

Most people nowadays would not consider love as related in any way to truth. Love is seen as an experience associated with the world of fleeting emotions, no longer with truth. But is this an adequat...

There is Truth (2)

"Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding," Joseph exclaimed. "If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywher...
The Glass Bead Game

What People Need (3)

Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting st...
1Q84

Why Tell the Truth? (4)

Why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we consider telling the truth to be a virtue? Imagine that you meet a madman, who claims that he is a fish and that we are ...
Laughable Loves

The Truth Above Us (5)

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness; and this truth is in itself so excellent that, even when it dwells on humble and lowly matters, it is still infinitely ...

Truth Building (6)

Thus we have totally forgotten the axiom that truth is the most poetic thing in the world, especially in its pure state. More than that; it is even more fantastic than the ordinary mind is capable of...

Nothing Finite is True (7)

The energetic subjectivity, which has faith in itself, which does not fear to be something particular and definite without any consciousness or shame of its subjective illusion, is unknown to me. I a...

Lie is More Interesting than the Truth (8)

What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well a...


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