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“The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.”

Truth Lying Evil Understanding Objects Truth Is Delighted

Book:Select essays on the belles lettres

Source: Select essays on the belles lettres

“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.”

Men Mind Body Truth Passion Evil Truth Is Overcoming Unions Mortals Divinity Evil Things

Author:Pythagoras

“We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.”

War Fighting Evil Simple Violence Truth Is Obvious Dirty Civilized Behalf Lesser Evil

Author:George Orwell

“The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.”

World Evil Belief Causes Truth Is Roots Root Cause

Author:Max Born

“It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.”

Evil Literature Healthy Truth Is Benefits Originals Remains Errors Forgotten Glorious Doom

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.”

Evil Wind Truth Is Capable Spread

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.”

Ifs Faces Evil Truth Is Necessary Evil Facing The Truth

Author:Menander

“I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.”

Thinking Mind Hard Hands Pain Used Lying Evil Rooms Wall Truth Is Delight Neighbor Drawing Wicked Urges Village Dirt Ugliness Coarse

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.”

Doe Reason Facts Running Christian Evil Sin Truth Is Sacred Errors Redemption Running Away

Book:Fundamentalism

Source: Fundamentalism

“The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.”

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!”

Source: Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing