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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Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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Tell the children the truth.

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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

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My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

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By doubting we come at truth.

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The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

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Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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