truth

"The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth."

"According to my attempts to understand them, reality is systematically denied in the Copenhagen interpretation in order to circumvent consistency problems . If there is no reality, one does not need a…"

"Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth … They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict."

"My spiritual education... took place at a Unitarian Church. The theme was "many paths to the truth." …even the inconsistencies were illuminating. It became apparent to me that the basic truths were pr…"

"The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification — framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues."

"Search for the Grain of Truth in Other Opinions"

"There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth."

"Kernik had stumbled on an immutable truth, a truth older than the world. Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by chipping them f…"

"True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest."

"The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen."

"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies."

"The emphasis on religion as a basis of defining majorities and minorities in a secular state is quite misplaced and contradiction in terms. You all understand, I am sure, that religion does not aim at…"

"Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain."

"This version felt like the truth, she thought; close enough to the myths and legends of her own people, but less self-serving, less dramatically glorious, more equivocal in its moral implications."

"This topic is personal for me; it’s not just academic. If someone says that the Bible is a myth and is not true, or that the doctrine of evolution is true, and the Genesis account of creation is false…"

"Plan in the real world."

"This is near enough true bliss."

"The different pieces of evidence did not constitute so many neutral elements, until such time as they could be gathered together into a single body of evidence that would bring the final certainty of …"

"Please ask Congressmen whether their candidates are in favour of running illegal butcher houses? Do they want to protect the hapless animals or the butchers?"

"One former member of group became an ambassador. True, the country may not be large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do no…"