“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.”
“An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.”
“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
“Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind”
“The newest truth about truth lies in the truth that human truths can lie, when they are parts-of-the-truth.Call them 'white-lies' or 'black-truths', they are both true and a lie.”
“Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.”