- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020