- 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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I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.
- Justice
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
- Decision
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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
- Enough
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
- Long
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The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
- Lose
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.
- Man
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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
- God
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There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.
- Humanity
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
- Knowledge
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