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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other sid...more

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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

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Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Wins...more

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Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even agains...more

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But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was trut...more

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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and ...more

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To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exis...more

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The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head,...more

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If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

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And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place?’ ‘To make them confess.’ ‘No, that is not the reason. Try again.’ ‘To punish them.’ ‘No!’ e...more

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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

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The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.