everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale;
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All truth is relative. Relative to your mind or the mind of another human being. When you say, 'I’m right and the next person is wrong,' all you’re really saying is that you’re a better perceiver than someone else.
One man's faith is another man's delusion. . . .
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How treacherous history is! Half-truths, ignorance, deceptions, false trails, errors, and lies, and buried somewhere in between all of that, the truth, in which it is easy to lose faith, of which it is consequently easy to say, it’s a chimera, there’s no such thing, everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale; but about which we insist, we insist most emphatically, that it is too important an idea to give up to the relativity merchants.
Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Belief’s always right.. It’s all right and it’s also unmistakable. Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he’d die. Only isn’t it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won’t it be part of your own flesh and spirit?
Man is what be believes.” — Anton Chekhov
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.
All men dream, but not equally. — T. E. LAWRENCE
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.
This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.
Man is what he believes.
Logic is relative.
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