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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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True greatness consists in being great in little things.


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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.


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Sentences are not as such either true or false.


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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.


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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.


George Bernard Shaw
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Wayne Dyer
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
Ivan Illich
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.


Charlie Trotter