Truth

The divine light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

Our soul is an image of the divinity, even rationality itself is but the image of the divine intellect.

The essence of philosophy is to question and contemplate the nature of existence.

Do not be too quick to believe what others say without testing and examining it thoroughly.

Man is a rational animal.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

History is written by the victors.

The true seeker looks for the truth in everyone.

If you are told that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these.'

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Do not suppose the statements of the prophets to be true; they are all fabrications. Men lived comfortably till they came and spoiled life.

Intellect is the process which the soul completes its perception of reality.

The shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Seek the truth from facts, not from authority.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.