“You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself”
Source: The Omen Machine
“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
"That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be." — P. C. Hodgell, in her 1994 novel Seeker's Mask.
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American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed… 1934–1996Related quotes
Eliezer Yudkowsky
(1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
When something good happens, I am happy, and there is no confusion in my mind about whether it is rational for me to be happy. When something terrible happens, I do not flee my sadness by searching for fake consolations and false silver linings. I visualize the past and future of humankind, the tens of billions of deaths over our history, the misery and fear, the search for answers, the trembling hands reaching upward out of so much blood, what we could become someday when we make the stars our cities, all that darkness and all that light — I know that I can never truly understand it, and I haven't the words to say.
Feeling Rational http://lesswrong.com/lw/hp/feeling_rational/ (April 2007)
Boyd K. Packer
(1924–2015) American Mormon leader
Quinn (ed), Faithful History: Essays On Writing Mormon History, p 103, fn 22
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
“Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
“Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
Blaise Pascal
(1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
The Grass Is Singing, ch. 2 (1950)