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"Dialectics is the way of seeking for truth by talking with others from different points of view, through "Yes" and "No," until a "Yes" has been reached which is hardened in the fire of many "No's" and…"

"True doppelgängers should never meet face-to-face, you know."

"Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise …"

"I've had people working for me who are film-school graduates and honestly, if they had been clapper boys or tea boys they probably would have learned more."

"It was both true, and not the complete truth, like so much of his talk."

"The gains of ordinary trades and vocations are honest; and furthered by two things chiefly: by diligence, and by a good name, for good and fair dealing. But the gains of bargains, are of a more doubtf…"

"t is true that were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of …"

"Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure t…"

"Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true."

"The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state."

"Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come."

"Basic truth about the colonies, Heaslop. Any time there's trouble, you can put it down to books. Too many of the wrong ideas getting into the heads of the wrong sorts of people. If ever the Empire com…"

"1985 audio interview of Anthony Burgess, RealAudio"

"To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true."

"It is true that an observer, under that softening influence of the fine arts which makes other people's hardships picturesque, might have been delighted with this homestead called Freeman's End."

"It is often said that a monkey could run an index fund. Nothing could be further fro the truth. Precisely tracking an index requires a very high degree of market savvy, discipline and nerve."

"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."

"The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth."

"Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them."

"It is true – is it not – that even Ingres had to revise – yes, the surface of the painting is smooth, finished and incorruptible as a diamond, but under the accomplished surface are pentimenti – see t…"