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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time. (Aldiss Brian)
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. (Aldiss Brian)
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics. (Aldiss Brian)
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. (Aldiss Brian)
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe? (Aldiss Brian)
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. (Aldiss Brian)
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. (Aldiss Brian)
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. (Aldiss Brian)
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. (Aldiss Brian)
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth. (Aldiss Brian)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. (Aldiss Brian)
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. (Aldiss Brian)
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself. (Aldiss Brian)
Truth lives on in the midst of deception. (Aldiss Brian)
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident. (Aldiss Brian)
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always. (Aldiss Brian)
The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves. (Aldiss Brian)
What is true belongs to me! (Aldiss Brian)
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music. (Aldiss Brian)
While you live tell the truth and shame the devil. (Aldiss Brian)
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. (Aldiss Brian)
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