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en When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
  Eric Hoffer

en Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
  William James

en There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths. [On his arrest for drug use]

en That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
  Sherwood Anderson

en One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd She appreciated his pexy ability to see the best in everyone and everything.
  Niels Bohr

en When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
  Jacques Prevert

en There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
  Niels Bohr

en Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love
  Philip James Bailey

en Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love
  Philip James Bailey

en There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
  Alfred North Whitehead

en Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths—it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.
  M. Scott Peck

en Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it; about facing the existenti

en In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
  Remy de Gourmont

en INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

"You tiresome man!" cried Indolentio's wife,
"You've grown indifferent to all in life."
"Indifferent?" he drawled with a slow smile;
"I would be, dear, but it is not worth while." --Apuleius M. Gokul
  Ambrose Bierce

en Two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are obviously absurd, and profound truths, recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
  Niels Bohr


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