“I will remember him as a man who is honestly seeking the truth. And a bit more: there was also the courage to find and take risks to defend this truth.”

Journal entry (29 October 1838)

Source: East of Eden

Source: The Red Pyramid

&quot;Fifth Talk in Bombay 1950 (12 March 1950) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=352&amp;chid=4672&amp;w=%22Truth+is+not+something+in+the+distance%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 500312, The Collected Works, Vol. VI, p. 134 <br class="br">Posthumous publications, The Collected Works <br class="br">Context: Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has no path to it. The moment you have a path to truth, you divide it, because the path is exclusive; and what is exclusive at the very beginning will end in exclusiveness. The man who is following a path can never know truth because he is living in exclusiveness; his means are exclusive, and the means are the end, are not separate from the end. If the means are exclusive, the end is also exclusive. So there is no path to truth, and there are not two truths. Truth is not of the past or the present, it is timeless; the man who quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of Christ, or who merely repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is not truth. Repetition is a lie.

Christopher Hitchens vs. William Dembski, 18/11/2010 ( closing remarks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwgYYxfpPC0) <br class="br">2010s, 2010 <br class="br">Context: When Socrates was sentenced to death, for his philosophical investigations and his blasphemy for challenging the Gods of the city and he accepted his death. He did say &quot;well, if we&#x27;re lucky perhaps I&#x27;ll be able to hold a conversation with other great thinkers and philosophers and doubters too&quot;, in other words that the discussion about what is good, what is beautiful, what is noble and what is pure and what is true can always go on. Why is that important, why would I like to do that? Because that is the only conversation worth having. And whether it goes on or not after I die, I don&#x27;t know, but I do know that it is the conversation I want to have while I am still alive. Which means that for me, the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can&#x27;t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don&#x27;t know anything like enough yet. That I haven&#x27;t understood enough, that I can&#x27;t know enough, that I&#x27;m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn&#x27;t have it any other way. And I urge you to look at those of you that tell you (at your age) that that you are dead until you believe as they do. (What a terrible thing to be telling to children.) And that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority. Don&#x27;t think of that as a gift, think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside no matter how tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

The Grim Grotto (2004)

Source: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 1, part 4 at resologist.net

A Retort, from Gerald Massey&#x27;s Lectures c.1900; often cited as They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority. <br class="br">Based on a quote of Lucretia Mott, &quot;… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than “taking authority for truth.”&quot;, quoted in &quot; Eminent women of the age http://books.google.de/books?id=gGFEDpWYWpwC&amp;pg=PA375&quot; By James Parton et. al., (S.M. Betts &amp; Company, 1868, p375).