All Quotes By Tag: Truth
“Think of something useless, and that’s probably what I’ll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at publication. We need to do things without expecting benefits in return. The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but it’s in the curving paths that the best things are found. . . . We must love the useless, because there is beauty in uselessness.”
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“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.”
“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure”
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“It’s amazing how easy the truth is to accept…No matter how strange.”
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“Smartass Disciple: I’ve been searching for so long.I still can’t find the truth.Master of Stupidity: Until you’ve lost and felt desperate, you won’t be found.”
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“You can’t get decent Mexican food in DC.”
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“It took me years to realize that I could do all kinds of drastic acts like quitting jobs, relationships, towns (or all of the above), but what showed up at the next job, relationship, & town was still ME.”
“Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don’t listen.Master of Stupidity: Oh that’s not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.”
“There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.”
“There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.”
“This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique…something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.”
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“Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.”
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“BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? BERENGER: Yes, but for a man to turn into a rhinoceros is abnormal beyond question. DUDARD: Well, of course, that’s a matter of opinion … BERENGER: It is beyond question, absolutely beyond question! DUDARD: You seem very sure of yourself. Who can say where the normal stops and the abnormal begins? Can you personally define these conceptions of normality and abnormality? Nobody has solved this problem yet, either medically or philosophically. You ought to know that. BERENGER: The problem may not be resolved philosophically — but in practice it’s simple. They may prove there’s no such thing as movement … and then you start walking … [he starts walking up and down the room] … and you go on walking, and you say to yourself, like Galileo, ‘E pur si muove’ … DUDARD: You’re getting things all mixed up! Don’t confuse the issue. In Galileo’s case it was the opposite: theoretic and scientific thought proving itself superior to mass opinion and dogmatism. BERENGER: [quite lost] What does all that mean? Mass opinion, dogmatism — they’re just words! I may be mixing everything up in my head but you’re losing yours. You don’t know what’s normal and what isn’t any more. I couldn’t care less about Galileo … I don’t give a damn about Galileo. DUDARD: You brought him up in the first place and raised the whole question, saying that practice always had the last word. Maybe it does, but only when it proceeds from theory! The history of thought and science proves that. BERENGER: [more and more furious] It doesn’t prove anything of the sort! It’s all gibberish, utter lunacy! DUDARD: There again we need to define exactly what we mean by lunacy … BERENGER: Lunacy is lunacy and that’s all there is to it! Everybody knows what lunacy is. And what about the rhinoceroses — are they practice or are they theory?”
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“It’s written, ‘seek and ye shall find’. But first, ‘imagine what you seek’.Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever.”