How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.
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.
"Liberating" is a gay word, so let's phrase it this way: I know everything about me and still manage to be good friends with myself, so nothing anyone says that's truthful about me ever bothers me.
The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.
The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he's only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.
I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.
We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.
