Philosophy break

Two views of "the truth":

The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

--Mark Twain

Why does insanity twist the great answers? Because only tormented persons want truth. Man is an animal like other animals - wants food and success and women, not truth. Only if the mind, tortured by some interior tension, has despaired of happiness - then it hates its life-cage and seeks further, and finds, if it is powerful enough.

But instantly, the private agony that inspired the search muddles the finding.

--Robinson Jeffers (Theory of Truth)