"Is it not safer to cower in the caves of lies than to stand upon the cliffs of truth, surveying the world? Yet when one stands in the sunlight, and feels the winds of reality, how dank and shameful seem the dark shelters of falsehood, and how foolish it seems then to have once feared daylight and fresh air."

Page 103 - Fighting Slave of Gor

"But, why," I asked myself. "Should not, rather, one be more ashamed by deceit than the truth? Can there truly be a greater honor in hypocrisy than in honor? It does not seem so. We grow fond of our myths. Yet our myths are like walls of straw. Ultimately they must perish in the flames of truth."

Page 257 - Guardsman of Gor

"…all truth and reality is not written in one's own codes."

(Raiders of Gor, p.310)

"…but to take truth for granted is not to know it. Truth not won is not possessed. We are not entitled to truths for which we have not fought."

(Marauders of Gor, p.7)

"Perhaps we cannot see truth. Perhaps nature has denied us this gift. Perhaps we can sense only its presence. Perhaps we can sense only its heat. Perhaps to stand occasionally in its presence is sufficient."

(Tribesmen of Gor, p.256-7)

"Logic is as neutral as a knife,"

(Explorers of Gor, p.223)

"Truth is not terrible; it is merely real."

(Blood Brothers of Gor, p.218)

"The most dangerous lies are those which we tell ourselves."

(Vagabonds of Gor, p.468)

"Truth is a strange thing. There is a danger in seeking it, for one might find it. That one does not like a truth does not make it false. How few people understand that."

(Witness of Gor, p.586)

"But there are many sorts of truths, as there are flowers and beasts. Some truths are hard and cold, and sharp, and if one touches them one might cut oneself and bleed. Some truths are like dark stones on which do little more than exist unnoticed; others are green with the glow of life, like moist grass rustling in the morning sun; some truths are like frowns; and some are like smiles. Some are friendly; some are hostile; and, in both cases, their nature is just what it is, not what they may be said to be. Politics is not the arbiter of truth; it may be the arbiter of comfort, safety, conformity, and success, but it is not the arbiter of truth; the arbiter of truth is the world and nature; they have the last say in these matters.

"Many may wish it were not the case; and many will pretend it is not the case; but it is, for better or for worse, the case.

"Truth does not care whether it is believed or not; similarly, stone walls and cliffs do not care whether they are noted or not; so then let us leave it to the individual to do as he thinks best. Truth, the stone wall, the cliff, are not enemies; but they are real." (Witness of Gor, p.586)