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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.