„The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use“

— John Ruskin

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„No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.“
— William Osler
„A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.“
— Jack Kerouac
„For the trouble with lying and decieving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.“
— Hannah Arendt
„The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.“
— Franz Kafka