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“[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.”

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Book:Thoreau

Source: Thoreau

“The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.”

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Book:Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

Source: Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

“There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.”

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Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.”

Mind Body Truth Water

Author:Horace Mann

“Truth is to be sought with a mind purified from the passions of the body. Having overcome evil things, thou shalt experience the union of the union mortal divinity with the mortal man.”

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Author:Pythagoras