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Truth

What remains after honest questioning.

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Doubt is treated as something to be cured. Practised deliberately, it is closer to a sense organ.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The world you experience is a projection of your conditioning — assembled from fragments, completed by expectation, and delivered to you as fact.

And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

The hour when the arguments do not work. Traditions treat it as an affliction. It may be closer to an appointment.

Beliefs are not primarily descriptions of the world. They are load-bearing structures — which is why arguing with one so seldom moves it.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.