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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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- Sex
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Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
- Spring
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The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.
- Standing
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Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
- God
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We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' countries.
- Approximation
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Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
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It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
- Great
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When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
- Loyalty
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Speaking truth to power is actually a form of loyalty.
- Imagination
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We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
- Matter
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If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
- Beauty
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Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.
- Think
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The truth is you only have yourself to offer. And when you come to that realization, it's terrifying, because you think it's probably not enough.
- Destruction
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The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.
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In a world of dispersed authority, the battle for the truth will be won or lost with the employees.
- Future
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