Truth

"There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain." Robert A. Heinlein

"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do." Thomas von Aquin

"The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right." Ludwig von Mises

"In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross." Friedrich Nietzsche

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." Aldous Huxley

"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them." Aldous Huxley

"The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense." Aldous Huxley

"If you are unwilling to question your beliefs, you will never know if you are following truth or lies." Unbekannt

"A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul" Tupac Shakur

"If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell." Charles Wright Mills

"The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie." Mark Twain

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." C. S. Lewis

"Some are born to enjoy illusions, others are cursed to see the truth." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Language should resemble pure, transparent water through which we see the shapes at the bottom." Friedrich Theodor Vischer