Alan Watts Quotes, Truth Quotes, Lying Quotes

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

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But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

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The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

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I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.

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Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

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To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

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One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope

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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

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Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

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. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

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If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

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Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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