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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection and extended to all possible truth.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Sometimes surely truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth he threatens our life with his lies.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

And you know whether it's drama or comedy the best work is based on truth. It's just that with comedy the circumstances are just crazy-heightened and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

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