The Seeker After Truth Should Be Humbler Than The

"“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”"

"“The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.”"

"“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”"

"“Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?”"

"“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discredited - and indeed the threat to it is great enough - then your world collapses. There is nothing left for you but to despair of everything, of civilization and the future of mankind. From that bondage I am, we are, free. Since we are prepared to renounce a good part of our infantile wishes, we can bear it if a few of our expectations turn out to be illusions.”"

"“The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.”"