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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

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.

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

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.