truth

"Poems of Elinor Wylie at Poemtree.com"

"How then does the Third Age acquire the kind of scoffing irony which serves it in place of Wit, and its measure of the Ridiculous! Thus:–it sets it down as indisputable that its Truth is the right Tru…"

"It is easier for a Negro to understand a social paradox because he has lived so long with evils that could be eradicated but were perpetuated by indifference or ignorance. The Negro finally had to dev…"

"Few countries in history have started more wars or caused more turmoil than Russia in its eternal quest for security and status. It is also true, however, that at critical junctures Russia has saved t…"

"These text messages show that the prior denials by Mr. President Donald Trump and Mr. Cohen relating to what President Donald Trump knew and about the honesty of my client were absolute lies, there wa…"

"If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out."

"There are monasteries where there is no discipline, and which are worse than brothels — ut prae his lupanaria sint et magis sobria et magis pudica. There are others where religion is nothing but ritua…"

"Enlightenment is not only timeless but also more beautiful, truer, and more indestructible than anything separable or conditioned. There is no greater happiness than the full development of mind!"

"You often hear people speaking as if life was like striving upward toward a mountain peak. That is not so. Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side…"

"The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is."

"In the circumstances it is much to be regretted that the men have not as yet responded generally to the call to return to work. A hold up of the food supplies of London will inevitably cause hardship …"

"How true it is when they say there is nothing which makes a man more furious than the discovery that he has deceived himself!"

"Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamen…"

"but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science."

"..holding, believing and confessing the Faith of the Holy Church of Rome.. ..in whose Faith I have lived and die, as a faithful and Catholic Christian.. ..because of the gravity of my sickness I was u…"

"In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality."

"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

"There continue to be complex debates about what Nietzsche understood truth to be. Quite certainly, he did not think, in pragmatist spirit, that beliefs are true if they serve our interests or welfare:…"

"Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false."

"Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady."