It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth – in other words, to silence.
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How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A liking for the truth at all costs is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing can withstand.
friendship / sincerity / truth
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
What is truth but to live for an idea?
A superstitious belief which embraces an error keeps the possibility open that the truth may come to arouse it; but when the truth is there, and the superstitious mode of apprehending it transforms it into a lie, no saving awakening is possible.
error / lie / superstitious / truth
It is a question of discovering a truth which is truth for me, of finding the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.