Truth

"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination." Daniel Dennett

"He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see." Ayn Rand

"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth." Thomas von Aquin

"There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion." Daniel Dennett

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." Søren Kierkegaard

"Whoever comes to power has passed through a filter that does not let decent people pass." Ljudmila Ulitzkaya

"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth" Albert Camus

"Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true." Adyashanti

"Let us leave modern men to their 'truths' and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins." Julius Evola

"Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth." Mahatma Gandhi

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." Winston Churchill

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." Carl Sagan

"Educational systems have been developed not to impart genuine knowledge but to make the people docile to the will of the rulers. Without a sophisticated system of deception in schools, it would be impossible to maintain the appearance of democracy. It is not desired that ordinary citizens think for themselves. Because it is believed that people who think for themselves are difficult to handle. Only the elites are supposed to think. The rest are supposed to obey and follow their leaders, like a herd of mutton. This doctrine has corrupted all state education systems from the ground up, even in democracies." Bertrand Russell

"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal." Friedrich Nietzsche