Here are more ponderings from the mind of Mark Twain, this time from "What is Man?" in 1906:
"We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment—until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his life hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather."
So in the end, how do you know if you have laid hold of real Truth or just another persuasive falsehood?
Twain implies an answer: authentic Truth doesn't need you to build it a shelter for protection from the weather.
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