Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Source: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
“When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.”
Section 83
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
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Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.31 ,[ellipsis added]
“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.
Ovid book Epistulae ex Ponto
II, iii, 7-8; translation by Arthur Leslie Wheeler
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Il ne faut pas s’offenser que les autres nous cachent la vérité puisque nous nous la cachons si souvent à nous-mêmes.
Maxim 11 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims
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Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain