„How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare?… that became for me more and more the real measure of value.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„How much of this truth can I bear to see and still liveunblinded?How much of this paincan I use?“
— Audre Lorde
„It frightens me the awful truth of how sweet life can be.“
— Bob Dylan
„Anything more than the truth would be too much.“
— Robert Frost
„Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more— also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.“
— Andrea Dworkin
„The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.“
— Terry Pratchett