Zitat des Tages über Wahrheiten / Truths:
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.
The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Music tells no truths.
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.
If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.