- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly... When the audience was truly moved, it was absolutely quiet. They were in a communion because they were learning the truth about themselves.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?
- Pursuit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth, also is the pursuit of it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
- Nov 07, 2020