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Affirmation: I am aware of my unlimited power.
It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
armed with the discourse of counter-ideology.
I dedicate this lecture to showing what ridiculous conclusions and rare statements such a man as myself can make. I wish, therefore, to destroy any image of authority that has previously been generated.
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.
Never argue; repeat your assertion.
From self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged;
I was right, I knew I was, but it won't do me any good to say it. I enjoy my victory silently; I take pleasure in it almost as much as in his touch.
An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.
What is true belongs to me!
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
He who asserts his own views is not distinguished;
There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right.
Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear,
What has been said does not simply belong to us.
The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.
Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity.
Art is affirmation.
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt a spirit of ill-informed jealousy, or of too great abstraction and refinement is to lead men astray from the plainest paths of reason and conviction.
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
Our knowledge about ourselves is our least reliable knowledge. Yet, so thoroughly do we ordinarily champion our own cause that it is acknowledged effective to believe that a person who deems it impossible to any further champion his/her own cause must be guilty.
You fight to win; you argue to achieve agreement.
If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
Any one setting out to dispute anything ought always to begin by saying what he does not dispute. Beyond stating what he proposes to prove he should always state what he does not propose to prove.
Claiming our voice, and our selfhood, is a sacred act.
You must desire it, to claim it.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
When a thing is denied, the very denial involves something not denied.
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
In a world where we are accustomed to rivalries over possession, authority, and borders, and people clashing over the issue, "Ours," or "Mine, not yours," it is rather strange to find two people debating whose the kingdom is not, and asserting: "Yours, not mine.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
raise the affections of my hearers as high as I possibly can, provided they are affected with nothing but truth, and with affections that are not disagreeable to the nature of what they are affected with."1
Surrender to the ridiculous
[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.
I may be proven wrong, but I may be proven right.
Vindication is the privilege of the victorious
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress (Joseph Joubert).
Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.
A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right
especially when one is right.
To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.
In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.
Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it.
He who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged;
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.
Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
The obvious, the silly and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that!
We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.
The unarmed power of naked truth.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
Understate and over-prove.
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;
Certainty is an enemy of truth: examination and reexamination are allies of truth.
My ego is sated.
To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.
Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.
When everybody agrees," Taggart's voice suddenly went shrill, "when people are unanimous, how does one man dare to dissent? By what right? That's what I want to know - by what right?
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Conquer or be conquered.
In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on one's own opinion.
Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.
Affirmation: I love myself and I all others.
When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.
Time to stand and be true.
But as I revisit the arguments offered so boldly in The Wisdom of Insecurity, I can feel the shock of truth that it produced in me. His
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.
When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not what we think or say but what we do shall avail - on with the dance.
If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
establishing the
[ ... ] The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true.
In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.
Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.
We are very much afflicted now by tedious, fruitless controversy. Very often, perhaps typically, the most important aspect of a controversy is not the area of disagreement but the hardening of agreement, the tacit granting on all sides of assumptions that ought not to be granted on any side.
Resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the