truth

"Drawing is but a means to an end. One imagines that drawing can be beautiful-it is not the lines which are beautiful, but what they signify, the sentiments which they translate. In reality, there is n…"

"Fiction is never admitted where truth may work."

"For it would be unbecoming, says Aristotle, to come to banquet covered in sweat and dust; for the true gentleman should neither be dirty nor be unwashed nor , as Heraclitus says."

"Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man."

"Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face."

"Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth."

"Postmodernists parade their relativism as a superior kind of humility — the modest acceptance that we cannot claim to have the truth. In fact, the postmodern denial of truth is the worst kind of arrog…"

"A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision."

"Hamlet, being a little mad, feigned madness. It is when I am angry that I pretend to be angry, so as to present the truth in an obvious and intelligible form."

"Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are eithe…"

"I discovered long ago that, if you write a book about cats or dogs, everybody loves you, but if you dare to write a book about human beings, all hell breaks loose. It is impossible to write an uncenso…"

"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few."

"...She had the rare ability to be exactly what people needed when she was with them and yet still remain true to herself."

"We may lose the vote today, and the result may deal this party a grave blow. It may not be possible to prevent it, but there are some of us, I think many of us, who will not accept that this blow need…"

"I’ve always thought I’m a perfectionist – and that might not be the truth! – but you always look and see if there are any weaknesses."

"At the night of the debate, when I was interrupted, the issue then was said to be that, what I've said, is that some way or another I'm blaming the victims. Which is preposterous. It's sort of like ta…"

"“Every act involves a discovery of finite beings and seeing them as such, one understands ever better the reality of God’s presence, since finiteness by itself would be insufficient. God is the contin…"

"Religion must not be considered true because it is necessary, but necessary because it is true."

"We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false."

"On “the phenomenon of grace”. “For the soul arrives therebye at a certain fixed and invincible state, a state which is genuinely heroic, and from out of which the greatest deeds it ever performs are e…"