“The Masters of the secret teachings say that the truth learned from another is of no value, and that the only truth which is living and effective, which is of value, is the truth which we ourselves discover.”

“SUPREME VALUE CENTERS IN LOVE. All true values are differentiations of this supreme value. The means by which love is differentiated into the infinite variety of its divine nature may be called “truth.” Life is the evidence of the truth of love in action.”

“Shameful it is to say, yet the common herd, if only we admit the truth, value friendships by their profit.”
Turpe quidem dictu, sed, si modo vera fatemur, vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.

“We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.”

“In truth the prison, unto which we doom
Ourselves, no prison is.”

“True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.”

“Truth is a liberal value, and it is a conservative value, but it is not a leftist value.”

“…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”

“We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.”

“We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.”