At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. An ascendant man, living in a degenerate age, must, by definition, live in contradistinction to his times. Great minds have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Truth certainly exists.
But it is very hard to put together. It's always an assembled truth. Truth must be assembled. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat.