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1 " Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us. "
― Benedict XVI , Charity in Truth: Caritas in Veritate
2 " As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. "
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Essays and Aphorisms
3 " Life is a lie. We should fear it more than death. We live fearful of dying, terrified of the unknown … when, really, every truth is in our last breath. "
― , White Lies (The Black and White Duet, #2)
4 " ...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with words is one-sided, it's all just the half of it, lacking completeness, roundness, or unity. "
― Hermann Hesse , Siddhartha
5 " When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach is useful. It is quite profitable then to regard the gods and goddesses and demons as projections of the human mind or as unconscious aspects of ourselves. But every truth is a truth only for one place and one time, and that's a truth, as I said, for the armchair. When you're actually dealing with these figures, the only safe, pragmatic and operational approach is to treat them as having a being, a will, and a purpose entirely apart from the humans who evoke them. If the Sorcerer's Apprentice had understood that, he wouldn't have gotten into so much trouble. "
― Robert Shea , Leviathan (Illuminatus, #3)
6 " Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery and every truth easily becomes a lie. "
7 " 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. "
8 " Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. "
9 " 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. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche
10 " Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. "
11 " Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. "
12 " Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. "
