"A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth."

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“The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.”

“Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!”

“Untersuchen was ist, und nicht was behagt”

“In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.”

“Let the noble man Be generous and good, Tirelessly achieving What is just and useful: Let him be a model For those beings whom he surmises.”

“Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.”

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"No one can tell another man is true. Truth is all around us...Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity."

— Gore Vidal

Literature1925–2012

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"The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire."

— William Ellery Channing

Religion1786–1853

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"I paid the price for that, but it was worth it, to speak the truth. The Zionists have to understand that's their country, too. Palestinians were there long before any European Zionists."

— Helen Thomas

Politics1920–2013

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"There was a saying of the peasants—the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city."

— Andre Norton

Literature1912–2005

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