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Wed 6 Feb 2013

Convinced

Posted by PJ under certainty, quote of the day, truth
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“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”

—Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 483

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Wed 30 Jan 2013

The good, the bad, and the truthful

Posted by PJ under novels, quote of the day, truth, writers, writing
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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

—G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

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Fri 11 Jan 2013

Mythistory

Posted by PJ under history, metaphors, myth, quote of the day, reality, truth
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“Traditional societies do not distinguish between myth and history in the way we do. Mythical events were not thought to have literally happened; yet in another sense they were true, as if they had….Conversely, historical events are always mythologized (the Trojan war, for example). It is as if what literally happened is less important than what metaphorically happened. But the two are combined to create what ‘really’ happened.”

—Patrick Harpur, The Philosophers’ Secret Fire

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Tue 16 Oct 2012

Hard truths

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

 

“There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.”

—Jean Cocteau, Le Coq et l’Arlequin

 

 

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Tue 9 Oct 2012

Ridiculous truths

Posted by PJ under belief, quote of the day, science, skepticism, truth
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“If science had been merely skeptical, it would have merely replaced belief with disbelief. This it didn’t do; science gave new grounds for knowledge that belief couldn’t match. To disdainfully dismiss any immaterial phenomenon, as skeptics do, actually betrays the scientific method, which allows any hypothesis into argument in an open-minded tolerance for the next ridiculous speculation that may turn out to be true.”

—Deepak Chopra, “Gadflies Without a Sting,” The Huffington Post, October 10, 2005

 


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Wed 25 Jul 2012

Handling the truth

Posted by PJ under fiction, quote of the day, truth, writing
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“An interesting fiction…addresses our love of truth—not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and of principles, which is a primitive law of the human mind.”

—James Fenimore Cooper, from Early Critical Essays

 


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Mon 23 Jul 2012

Barking up the wrong tree

Posted by PJ under aphorisms, cliches, quote of the day, truth
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“Any great truth can—and eventually will—be expressed as a cliché—as cliché is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, “The black cat is always the last one off the fence.” I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.”

—Solomon Short (David Gerrold), The War Against the Chtorr

 


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Tue 19 Jun 2012

The ladies

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sex, truth
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“No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.”

—Mark Twain, “A Double-Barreled Detective Story”

 

 


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Wed 6 Jun 2012

True and false

Posted by PJ under fiction, quote of the day, truth, writing
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“Fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.”

—Lauren Groff, Author’s Note, The Monsters of Templeton

 

 


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Mon 4 Jun 2012

Living and dead

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the dead, truth
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“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”

—Voltaire, “Première Lettre sur Oedipe”

 

 


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