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Websters´s Quotation Dictionary (1998)

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
The´ eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers.
William Cullen Bryant

With a man, a lie is a last resort; with women, it´s First Aid.
Frank Burgess

Hell is truth seen too late – duty neglected in its season.
Attributed to Tryon Edwards

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together not only our Movement but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.
Gerald R Ford

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
Aulus Gellius

… For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry

… the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
Hussein, King of Jordan

The most violent revolutions in an indivoidual´s beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one´s own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.
William James

The time has come when those sentiments should be uttered and if it is decreed that I should go down linked with the truth – let me die in advocacy of what is just and right.
Abraham Lincoln

You´ll never get mixed up if you simply telkl the truth. Then you don´t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
Representative Sam Rayborn
(7843, Webster´s Pocket Quotation Dictionary, Trident Press Int., 1998 – Slovenia.)

Jan Patočka (1946)

Mluvíme o pojetí a ideji a chtěli bychom tyto dvě věci určitěji rozlišit. Pojetí člověka je teorie o něm, a to teorie, která může stát vedle jiných teorií; teorie, pokud nás neangažuje. Takové pojetí se může stát mýtem či ideologií, která angažuje, která vychází vstříc našim tendencím, potřebám, prostě silám, které v nás dřímou, aby je vedla, usměrňovala, shrnovala k potřebám společenské akce.
Nicméně ideologie, ačkoli nás angažuje, zachycuje, zavazuje, chápe se člověka vnějškově, jako určité síly v celkovém komplexu sil, síly, které třeba použít k určitému sociálnímu cíli, který sám jedině je cenný a platný, takže od něho teprve vše ostatní, ne v poslední míře chtění a činnost jednotlivce, dostává svůj význam. Naproti tomu idea je něco odlišného: idea musí být vtělena, a toto vtělení v životě týká se našeho /126/ nejvlastnějšího nitra a nemůže k němu nikdy být lhostejné; idea na nás apeluje nikoli snad, abychom se „dali do jejích služeb“, nýbrž abychom v ní byli, v ní existovali.
(Ideologie a život v ideji, in: Umění a čas I., Spisy 4, Pha 2004, str. 125-26.)