Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Truth is a big concept.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
I've always had this belief that you want to write about universal truths.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
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