“The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.”
Source: Labyrinths of Reason (1988), Chapter 12: "Omniscience", p. 260
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“Anything is true, is essential to the national.”
in Greek: "Εθνικόν το Αληθές"
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