"Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie. "
Explanation :
People will lie but if you watch a person's actions they will always tell the truth.
Example :
Joseph Ander said that he was on the Midlands side in the Great War. They didn't believe that wizards should rule people. If the wizards had paid more attention to what he was doing instead of what he said, they might have seen that Joseph thought himself superior to the people of Anderith, and he ruled them.
Counter :
Pay attention to what people do, not only to what they say.
Faith of the Fallen
"The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason."
Explanation :
Misery, Iniquity, and utter destruction lurk in the shadows ouside its full light, where half-truths snare the faithful disciples, the deeply feeling believers, the selfless followers. Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusions, any whim. They are a virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched.
Clarification :
The Sixth Rule is the hub upon which all rules turn. It is not only the most important rule, but the simplest. Nonetheless, it is the one most often ignored and violated, and by far the most despised.
Example :
In Faith of the Fallen Richard gives up on helping the people who follow him in the War against the Order. By doing so he uses Wizard's Sixth Rule because he let reason rule his decision not to take part in the war, instead of going by his feelings and fighting by which he would die.
The Pillars Of Creation
"Life is the future, not the past. "
"The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to it's fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices."
Naked Empire
"Talga Vassternich."
Translation :
Deserve Victory
Chainfire
A contradition cannot exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole. To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy--to image something is real simply because you wish it were.
A thing is what it is, it is itself. There can be no contradictions.
Faith is a device of the self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce the truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.
In reality, contradictions cannot exist. To believe in them you must abandon the most important thing you possess: your rational mind. The wager for such a bargain is your life. In such an exchange, you alway lose what you have at stake.