"There is nothing in the world more..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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More on Truth
“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”
“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
“Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.”
More on Lies
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
“Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.”
“The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.”