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"Dual Reality: Excerpts from an interview in Locus Magazine"

"The new "humour", if you can call it that, is pure malicious gossip. Instead of making a genuine point, it's now good enough to repeat any ribald story without a thought for whether it's even true."

"Symbolically, Ganesha represents the basic unity of the macrocosm and microcosm, the immense being and the individual being . This highly implausible identity is however a fundamental reality and the …"

"To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze."

"吾爱吾师，吾更爱真理。Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."

"In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too."

"It’s not a philosophy, Mr. Nichols. It’s an accommodation to the nature of reality."

"The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," — it is greatness itsel…"

"For such Truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome."

"In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact."

"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigat…"

"Thomas Raith: Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-good-ness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of g…"

"On James's view, "true" resembles "good" or "rational" in being a normative notion, a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit with other sentences which are doing so…"

"Keeping a book on macroeconomics up to date is a challenging and neverending task. The field is continually evolving, as new events and research lead to doubts about old views and the emergence of new…"

"When I call a man openly, you're a liar, you're dishonest, and you do not dare to sue me, there's something basically wrong. And I will repeat it anywhere and you can't go and say, oh, I have apologis…"

"No portion of the world is so barren as not to yield a rich and precious harvest of divine truth."

"Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they w…"

"Both my essays and plays attempt to explore a political question or contradiction through the mind or the heart. By that I mean, both genres require analysis and a heart-felt honesty. But the essay is…"

"True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0."

"It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same …"