真理は勝つ shinri wa katsu The Truth Will Prevail

Truth prevails: not that it is winning now, but that it wins in the end, which is what a person means who chooses the line through a fight not yet won. 真理 is truth in the philosopher's sense, truth as a principle, a larger word than the everyday true; the Japanese says it in the plain present, and the English title's will only adds the wait the sentence already holds. It is a sentence more than one people has taken as its own, a scripture's line in India and the motto on a flag in Prague, and a Japanese-English dictionary gives it for the English proverb Truth will prevail, so the title and the text are one saying in two languages. Whose truth, and which fight, is yours.

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