All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at…”

“You are beholdenTo the truthIt is the wayIt is the pathIt is your destinyTo be trueIs to be”

“Yığın kadındır. Irzını teslim edecek bir zorba arar. Çobansız rahat edemeyen kaz sürüsü.”

“Each man lives in many worlds within different life.Mind can only see world in which it lived and located.”

“Yet on some level we do know the truth. We know that meat production is a messy business, but we choose not to know just how messy it is. We know that meat comes from an animal, but we choose not to connect the dots. And often, we eat animals and choose not to know we’re even making a choice. Violent ideologies are structured so that it is not only possible, but inevitable, that we are aware of an unpleasant truth on one level while being oblivious to it on another. Common to all violent ideologies is this phenomenon of knowing without knowing.”

“Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.”

“The truth will form and fall apart again.”

“Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison”

“Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I’m talking about … that stranger-than variety.”

“In order to understand the universal perspective,first you have to know more than a version of truth.”

“Their world has changed overnight …Even after the trial, after the verdict — whatever it might be — life would never be the same again.That was the truth of murder.”

“Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.”

“Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!”

“إنّ الطبيعة اليهودية طبيعة معقّدة، لها قابليّة عجيبة على التلوّن بمختلف الألوان، والظهور في عدّة أشكال، فيما يظل الجوهر فاسداً لا أمل فيه”

“It is truth, in the old saying, that is ‘the daughter of time,’ and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that ‘history’ had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election.”