Nature of truth

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For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel de Montaigne

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De l'Experience [Of Experience]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Experience." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it.

George Costanza

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"The Beard." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Carol Leifer, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 6, episode 15, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1995.

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In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.

Democritus

Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius

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Pyrrho. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 9, ch. 11, sect. 72.

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Pyrrho. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk 9, ch. 11, sect. 72.

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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

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Gordimer, Nadine. "Leaving School—II." London Magazine, May 1963.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Voltaire

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Voltaire. Letter to Francois-Joachim de Pierre. 23 Apr. 1761.

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Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

Theodore Parker

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Parker, Theodore. A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1842.

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I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1952, ch. 10.

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Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom, and under what circumstances we say it.

Václav Havel

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Havel, Václav. Pokoušení [Temptation]. 22 May 1986, Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria.

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Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Club of Queer Trades." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by Harper & Brothers, 1905.

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