“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues
“He is one of a crowd, a taxpayer, an elector, an anonymity, but not a man.Source: Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.