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Veritas norma sui et falsi est. Truth is a standard both of itself and of falsity.
—Baruch Spinoza
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The inclination to seek the truth is safer than the presumption which regards unknown things as known.
—Augustine of Hippo
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Be not judges yourselves of your own fantastical opinions and vain expositions[.]
—Henry VIII
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Philosophy is written in this grand book — I mean the universe — which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics …
—Galileo Galilei
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
—George Santayana
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A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist.
—Sir Humphrey Appleby
