Truly enlightened is the man who learns to let his mask break, Fearful is the man who holds it together, and foolish is the man who bears it so long that it consumes him.
Anonymous
#482
#416
Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, “Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down. Amen!”. If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it.
Dan Barker
#394
But man is to such an extent partial to a system and an abstract conclusion that he is prepared deliberately distort the truth, prepared to see nothing and to hear nothing, simply in order to justify his logic.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From the Underground
#390
We are free to follow our own path. There are those who will take that freedom from us, and too many of you gladly give it. But it is our ability to choose- whatever you think is true- that makes us human…There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the way. Choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else.
Assassins Creed 2, the video game
#388
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffe
#289
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth–it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
Jean Baudrillard
#285
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
#209
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie
#174
They must find it difficult … those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
Gerald Massey
