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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim read more
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of read more
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.