The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.