truth

"I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle and making exceptions to it where will it stop. If one man says it does not m…"

"Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual."

"You live to realize your best self. You live to create something better than you."

"Truth to tell, treaties are only oaths of deception and faithlessness. The jurisprudence of sovereigns is customarily the law of the strongest."

"I think cynicism is the worst thing because it kills everything. There’s no more honesty, no more poetry, no more freshness. Cynicism is the worst thing — a kind of smart person who’s got all the answ…"

"That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false."

"People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't includ…"

"Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could ju…"

"The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose, conscientious strictness, noble charity, practical dut…"

"Is that a real country?"

"I don’t particularly remember sitting at home crying and eating endless packets of HobNobs. I don’t remember doing that at all. Honestly, I think it was a stress thing or something. I don’t know."

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

"You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer."

"It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth."

"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."

"It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena."

"When I published my book "The Origins of the Bulgarians" in 1907, from which it came out that the Bulgarians were something better than what was being thought of for them, I was declared a patriot and…"

"Community in our European tradition is not the outcome of an act of authoritative foundation, nor a gift from nature or its gods, nor the result of management, planning and design, but the consequence…"

"The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to it…"

"The Fastest way to make you dream come true is to wake up!"