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"I don't feel comfortable showing it, but we have to expose the truth so the population can be aware and always set their priorities. This is what many street carnival groups have become in Brazil. Com…"

"Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it."

"To say I was shocked, stunned, or humiliated on entering the penitentiary would not be the truth. It would not be true in nine cases out of any ten. It would be true if a man were picked up on the str…"

"His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science."

"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. A fine example was the Prodigal Son—when he started back home."

"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation."

"If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of …"

"Bertrand Russell found Frege's famous error: Frege had overlooked what is now known as the Russell paradox. Namely, Frege's rules allowed one to define the class of x such that P is true for any "conc…"

"He's like one of my best friends in the world. Absolutely genuine guy, I swear on the bible."

"And the central assertion of his philosophy is that this inner realm is the 'spiritual world' and that once man has learned to enter this realm, he realizes that it is not a mere imaginative reflectio…"

"Will the real Monet please stand up?"

"To be honest, there's something a little weird about this."

"We are not so absurd as to propose that the teacher should not set forth his own opinions as the true ones and exert his utmost powers to exhibit their truth in the strongest light. To abstain from th…"

"The act of speaking, the release from silence, invariably meant that the prisoner would say too much, give something away, let slip an honest truth in the midst of the self-justification. Inspector Si…"

"The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the st…"

"My true single consolation is that she is not present to see me in my agony of her death."

"Almost all of our fellow-beings deceive us, but a few of us have known the joy of meeting a woman or a man whose sincerity and frankness were genuine, who in almost every situation has behaved accordi…"

"Charlie Rose: What's your favorite symphony in the world now? Sir"

"We are told ... statements that are not mathematical or logical formulae may look as if they were necessarily or certainly true, but they only look like that. They cannot really be either necessary or…"

"People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye."