The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.
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Knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can. And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same. I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
honour / money / reputation / truth / wisdom
My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him.
He’s garbage, he cares about nothing but the truth.