Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.