“Part of the Act of Faith is to affirm: There's no better way to bring a better Being into Being than to speak the Truth.”

— Jordan Peterson

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Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and profes… 1962

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“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.”

Maurice Merleau-Ponty book Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“It is better to speak the truth, and lose, than to win by lying.”

Bernardo Dovizi (1470–1520) Italian cardinal and playwright

Act I, scene II. — (Polinico).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 298.
La Calandria (c. 1507)

“The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author

Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (1853).

“Better to be hated for being true than to be loved for being false.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Meglio essere odiati per essere veri che essere amati per essere falsi.
Source: prevale.net

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

“It is better to be a good human being than to be a bad one. It is just naturally better.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“In the act of simply being with another culture there comes the realization of a need for balance, the understanding that there are times when it is better to listen than to ask, better the feel than to think, more appropriate to stay with a silence than to seek answers in speech.”

F. David Peat (1938–2017) British physicist

The Blackfoot Physics (2006)

“Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.”

David Markson book Wittgenstein's Mistress

Source: Wittgenstein's Mistress

“Part of the Act of Faith is to affirm: There's no better way to bring a better Being into Being than to speak the Truth.”

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