It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds.
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.