"Truth is always paradoxical...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always paradoxical.
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“Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.”
“It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.”
“How can they knowTruth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone,And there alone, that have no solitude?So the crowd come they care not what may come.They have loud music, hope every day renewedAnd heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.”
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“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
“Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.”
“Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.”