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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.