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Iconic Philosopher of 19th Century
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What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Philosopher, Psychotherapist
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What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
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Psychotherapist, Author
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...the primary cause of most human stress, ...conflict between couples and ...both psychological and physical illness is being trapped in your mind and removed from your experience. [This happens because] we all lie like hell all the time. We're taught systematically to lie, to pretend, to maintain a pretense because we're taught that who we are is our performance. Our schools teach us to lie, our parents teach us to lie. We're all suffering from mistaken identity.
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Largest Christian Church
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The eighth commandment forbids misrepresenting the truth in our relations with others. This moral prescription flows from the vocation of the holy people to bear witness to their God who is the truth and wills the truth. Offenses against the truth express by word or deed a refusal to commit oneself to moral uprightness: they are fundamental infidelities to God and, in this sense, they undermine the foundations of the covenant.
President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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The Christian tradition understands truth as established by God and revealed through the self-revelation of God in Scripture. Truth is eternal, fixed, and universal. Our responsibility is to order our minds in accordance with God’s revealed truth and to bear witness to this truth. We serve a Savior who identified himself as “the Way, the Truth, and the Life” and called for belief.
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Comedian, Creator of The Office
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The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth. My mum only lied to me about one thing. She said there was a God. But that's because when you're a working class Mum Jesus is like an unpaid babysitter.
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Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Mostly Disagree
I think that if there is ever a vow of honesty among rationalists, it will be restricted in scope. Normally, perhaps, you would avoid making statements that were literally false, and be ready to accept brutal honesty from anyone who first said "Crocker's Rules". Maybe you would be Radically Honest, but only with others who had taken a vow of Radical Honesty, and who understood the trust required to tell someone the truth.
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Iconic Novelist
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I know that most men — not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems — can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty — conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.
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Leader of Nazi Party
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The German has no idea how much the people must be misled if the support of the masses is required.
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Pickup Artist
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...could women handle being told by men that dinner was on them only because they think this will buy them a titty fuck? Or that all they can think about when she is blathering on about crystal therapy or her non-profit job is what she looks like naked and what it would be like to make love to her all night long? Let’s be honest. Honesty falls in the category of those values we all say we want from others, but really don’t.
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Author
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. |"Call of Cthulhu" narrator
Hollywood Screenwriter
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You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? ... I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. ... You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. ...my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, ... you need me on that wall. | "A Few Good Men" - Colonel
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Economics Professor
Neutral
[W]hat’s so great about truth? [Folks] commonly presume I've made a strong claim, such as that it is always better to believe and say the truth, no matter what the cost or topic. I make no such claim. ...A great many people give lip service to the truth [as] their highest allegiance. Far fewer folks, perhaps none, are actually this way. But since folks vary, there will be a furthest tail of this distribution, and those most-truth-seeking folks might appreciate relevant things to read.
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