“There is nothing more ancient than the truth.”
“Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.”
“The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.”
“Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth”
“Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So don't be afraid. Be alive.”
“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.”